-cle
a suffix found in french loanwords of latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from latin or in neo-latin coinages:
article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle.
-cle2
a suffix found in french loanwords of latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from latin; in latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb (cubicle, receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle).
origin
-cle
suffix
indicating smallness cubicle, particle
word origin
via old french from latin -culus. see -cule
Read Also:
- -cleisis
-cleisis or -clisis suff. closure; occlusion: corecleisis.
- -cline
combining form indicating a slope anticline derived forms -clinal, combining_form:in_adjective word origin back formation from incline
- -clisis
-clisis suff. variant of -cleisis.
- -coccal
a combining form of adjectives corresponding to nouns formed with -coccus: streptococcal.
- -coccus
a combining form representing coccus, in compound words: streptococcus. -coccus suff. a microorganism of spherical or spheroidal shape: streptococcus.