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• -acity

  a complex noun suffix meaning “quality of” or “abounding in the characteristic of,” appearing in loanwords from latin: tenacity.

• -acy

  a suffix of nouns of quality, state, office, etc., many of which accompany adjectives in -acious or nouns or adjectives in -ate: fallacy; papacy; legacy; delicacy; piracy.

• -ad

  a suffix occurring in loanwords from greek denoting a group or unit comprising a certain number, sometimes of years: dyad; triad . a suffix meaning “derived from,” “related to,” “concerned with,” “-ssociated with” (oread), introduced in loanwords from greek (olympiad; oread), used sporadically in imitation of greek models, as dunciad , after iliad . -ad2 […]

• -ade

  a suffix found in nouns denoting action or process or a person or persons acting, appearing in loanwords from french and sometimes from spanish (cannonade; fusillade; renegade), but also attached to native stems: blockade; escapade; masquerade . a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit, normally a citrus: lemonade . -ade2 a […]

• -ades

  a suffix occurring in loanwords from greek, the plural of -ad1 : hyades; pleiades.

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