-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.
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- -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.
- -ado
-ado in commando, desperado, ‘tornado,, and other words of sp. and port. origin, “person or group partic-p-ting in an action,” from l. -atus, pp. suffix of verbs of the first conjugation (cf. -ade).
- -ae
-ae occasional plural suffix of words ending in -a, most of which, in eng., are from l. nom. fem. sing. nouns, which in l. form their plurals in -ae. but plurals in -s were established early in eng. for many of them (e.g. idea, arena) and many have crossed over since. it is now impossible […]