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• -art

  variant of -ard: braggart. -ard suffix indicating a person who does something, esp to excess, or is characterized by a certain quality braggart, drunkard, dullard word origin via old french from germanic -hard (literally: hardy, bold), the final element in many germanic masculine names, such as bernhard bernard, gerhart gerard, etc -art suffix a variant […]

• -ary

  a suffix occurring originally in loanwords from cl-ssical and medieval latin, on adjectives (elementary; honorary; stationary; tributary), personal nouns (actuary; notary; secretary), or nouns denoting objects, especially receptacles or places (library; rosary; glossary). the suffix has the general sense “pertaining to, connected with” the referent named by the base; it is productive in english, sometimes […]

• -asis

  a suffix occurring in scientific, especially medical, words from greek: psoriasis. -asis suffix a variant of -iasis -iasis combining form (in medicine) indicating a diseased condition psoriasis compare -osis (sense 2) word origin from new latin, from greek, suffix of action

• -ass

  a combining form of -ss in the sense of ‘stupid person’ or ‘the b-ttocks’, used in slang words as an intensifier or with disparaging intent: big–ss; stupid–ss. –ss suffix used to form adjectives having b-ttocks of the specified sort: big–ss/ fat-ssed used to form adjectives and nouns 2 having a specified character or nature to […]

• -assed

  –ss suffix used to form adjectives having b-ttocks of the specified sort: big–ss/ fat-ssed used to form adjectives and nouns 2 having a specified character or nature to a high degree: bad-ss/ wild-ssed/ silly–ss

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