-aena
variant of -ena:
hyaena.
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- -age
a suffix typically forming m-ss or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring originally in loanwords from french (voyage; courage) and productive in english with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of” (seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of […]
- -agog
variant of -agogue. -agogue combining form indicating a person or thing that leads or incites to action pedagogue, demagogue denoting a substance that stimulates the secretion of something galactagogue derived forms -agogic, combining_form:in_adjective -agogy, combining_form:in_noun:countable word origin via late latin from greek agōgos leading, from agein to lead
- -agogue
a combining form with the meaning “leader, bringer,” of that named by the initial element, occurring in loanwords from greek (demagogue; pedagogue); used also in medical terms that denote substances inducing the expulsion or secretion of that named by the initial element (cholagogue; hemagogue). also, -agog. -agogue combining form indicating a person or thing that […]
- -agra
-agra suff. sudden acute pain: podagra.
- -aholic
a combining form extracted from alcoholic, occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense “a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity”: workaholic; chargeaholic. also, -holic. -aholic abstracted from alcoholic first in sugarholic (1965), later in workaholic (1968), golfaholic (1971), chocoholic (1976), and […]