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-coel

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• -coele

  variant of coel- as final element of a compound word: enterocoele. also, -cele, -coel.

• -colous

  a combining form meaning “inhabiting” the thing or place specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words: nidicolous. -colous combining form inhabiting or living on arenicolous word origin from latin -cola inhabitant + -ous; related to colere to inhabit

• -core

  a combining form extracted from hard-core and used especially to form words that name a rebellious, antimainstream lifestyle, social movement, type of music, etc.: emocore; queercore. -core combining form indicating a type of popular music dancecore combining form indicating the number of processing units working in parallel in a computer dual-core

• -cosm

  variant of cosmo- as final element of a compound word: microcosm.

• -crat

  a combining form meaning “ruler,” “member of a ruling body,” “advocate of a particular form of rule,” used in the formation of compound words: autocrat; technocrat. compare -cracy. -crat combining form indicating a person who takes part in or is a member of a form of government or cl-ss democrat, technocrat see also -cracy derived […]

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