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  a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from latin, formed from nouns denoting places (roman; urban) or persons (augustan), and now productively forming english adjectives by extension of the latin pattern. attached to geographic names, it denotes provenance or membership (american; chicagoan; tibetan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social cl-sses, religious denominations, […]

• -ana

  a suffix that forms collective nouns denoting an -ssembly of items, as household objects, art, books, or maps, or a description of such items, as a bibliography, all of which are representative of or -ssociated with the place, person, or period named by the stem: americana; shakespeareana; victoriana. also, -iana. -ana suffix denoting a collection […]

• -ance

  a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives in -ant or from verbs: brilliance; appearance. -ance suffix indicating an action, state or condition, or quality hindrance, tenancy, resemblance compare -ence word origin via old french from latin -antia; see -ancy -ance suffix attached to verbs to form abstract nouns of process or fact (convergence […]

• -ancy

  a combination of -ance and -y, used to form nouns denoting state or quality: brilliancy. -ance suffix indicating an action, state or condition, or quality hindrance, tenancy, resemblance compare -ence word origin via old french from latin -antia; see -ancy -ancy suffix a variant of -ance, used to indicate condition or quality expectancy, poignancy, malignancy […]

• -and

  suffix indicating a person or thing that is to be dealt with in a specified way -n-lysand, dividend, multiplicand word origin from latin gerundives ending in -andus, -endus

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