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List Of English SuffixesThis is an incomplete list of suffixes in English: | suffix !! Meaning !! Samples | | -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 | | | -icle | originally referring to a spike-like formation | see | | -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 | | -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 | | -polis | referring to city or big area | Metropolis | | -potent (or potence) | power | omnipotent, equipotent, impotence | | -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 | See also External link Suffixes
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