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List of English suffixes
This 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 |
| -esque | in the style of | Pythonesque, Romanesque |
| -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) | - |
| -gon | geometric shape | polygon, pentagon |
| -hedron | geometric solid | icosahedron, tetrahedron |
| -holic | love, addiction | alcoholic |
| -ic | ||
| -icle | originally referring to a spike-like formation | see wiktionary:-icle |
| -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
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