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List of English suffixes - Definition and Overview |
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This is an incomplete list of suffixes in English:
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| -ad | group | triad, monad
| | -agogy | leading | pedagogy, demagogy
| | -archy | rule, leadership | gynarchy, anarchy
| | -athlon | sporting event | pentathlon, decathlon
| | -cele, -coele, -coel | body cavity | mucocoel or mucocoele
| | -cele | tumor, hernia | hydatidocele
| | -centesis | puncturing | amniocentesis, rachicentesis
| | -chondrion | small grainlike structure | mitochondrion
| | -cide | murder, killing agent | suicide, vespacide, regicide
| | -cracy | rule, government | kakistocracy, democracy, androcracy
| | -cycle | circle, cycle, unit of radio frequency | epicycle, hydrocycle
| | -ectasia, -ectasis | stretching out | brochiectasis, telangiectasia
| | -ectomy | surgical removal | laryngectomy, vasectomy
| | -emesis | vomiting | hematemesis, hyperemesis
| | -emia | blood condition | leukemia, anaemia
| | -enchyma | cellular tissue | mesenchyma, karyenchyma
| | -ess | female | actress, waitress, stewardess
| | -esthesis, -esthesia | sensation, feeling | synesthesia, kinesthesis
| | -fugal | fuge, driving or travelling away from, expelling | centrifugal
| | -ful | full of, having some or much | hopeful, useful
| | -gate | a scandal, often political (back-formed from the Watergate scandal) | Watergate, nipplegate
| | -gon | geometric shape | polygon, pentagon
| | -hedron | geometric solid | icosahedron, tetrahedron
| | -holic | love, addiction | alcoholic
| | -ic | |
| | -id | skin rash | syphilid
| | -ism | doctrine, act, practice, condition | Protestantism, alcoholism, Buddhism, southernism
| | -ist | person | dentist
| | -itis | disease, inflammation | hepatitis, gingivitis
| | -itude | | attitude, certitude
| | -ium | metallic element (exception: helium) | sodium, Calcium
| | -kinesis | movement (ability thereof) | telekinesis
| | -less | lack of | homeless, useless
| | -ly | -like, having the attributes of; In modern English, primarily changes adjectives to adverbs; also changes some nouns to adjectives and some (past-tense) verbs to adverbs | quick(adj) > quickly(adv), state(n) > stately(adj), abashed(v) > abashedly(adv)
| | -mania | an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | kleptomania, megalomania, mythomania
| | -ography or -ogram | writing, description | stenography, geography, ideogram
| | -oid | resembling | solenoid, hominoid
| | -ology | study, science | planetology, thyroidology, phthisiology
| | -omics | area of biology | proteomics
| | -onomy | knowledge of | astronomy
| | -onym | name, word | antonym, consonym, heteronym
| | -opolis | referring to city or big area | Metropolis
| | -osis | process, action | mitosis, osmosis
| | -osis | formation | ostosis
| | -osis | diseased condition | psychosis
| | -phagy, -phagia | eating | monophagy
| | -philia | attraction | hemophilia
| | -phobia | fear | acrophobia, mysophobia
| | -phone | sound, audio | telephone, homophone
| | -science | knowing | omniscience
| | -scope | from Greek skopos, view; instrument for viewing and observing spaces | microscope, telescope
| | -ship | circle, state of being | friendship, relationship
| | -stan | land, country | Afghanistan
| | -tropism | to turn | phototropism
| | -us | inflammation | ulcus (ulcer)
| | -ward | direction | southward
| | -wise | direction | clockwise
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See also
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Example Usage of suffixes |
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BigShimmeryWall: Risotto doesn't really lend itself well to enthusiastic suffixes |
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