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• -eer

  a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from french (buccaneer; mutineer; pioneer) and productive in the formation of english nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly -ssociated with the referent of the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer); now frequently pejorative (profiteer; racketeer). compare -ary, -er2 , -ier2 . -eer suffix (forming […]

• -ein

  -ein suff. a chemical compound related to a specified compound with a similar name ending in -in or -ine: phthalein.

• -ella

  a suffix used as a formative in taxonomic names, especially genus names of bacteria: ch-r-lla; pasteurella; salmonella.

• -elle

  a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from french, where it originally formed diminutives, now often with a derivative sense in which the diminutive force is lost (bagatelle; prunelle; rondelle); also in anglicized forms of latin words ending in -ella (organelle).

• -eme

  a suffix used princ-p-lly in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem: morpheme; tagmeme. -eme suffix (linguistics) indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language morpheme, phoneme word origin c20: via french, abstracted from phoneme -eme in linguistics, noted […]

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