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• -ine

  a suffix of adjectives of greek or latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine. -ine2 a suffix, of no -ssignable meaning, appearing in nouns of greek, latin, or french origin: doctrine; famine; routine. a noun suffix used particularly in chemical terms (bromine; chlorine), and […]

• -ing

  a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or its result, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). it is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and […]

• -ino

  -ino related terms -erino

• -ion

  a suffix, appearing in words of latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in latin and in english to form nouns from stems of latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and especially past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion). -ion suffix indicating an action, process, or state creation, objection compare -ation, -tion word origin

• -ior

  a suffix of comparatives appearing in words of latin origin: superior; ulterior; junior.

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