-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).
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- -ence
a noun suffix equivalent to -ance, corresponding to the suffix -ent in adjectives: abstinence; continence; dependence; difference . -ence suffix indicating an action, state, condition, or quality benevolence, residence, patience word origin via old french from latin -entia, from -ēns, present participial ending -ence see -ance.
- -enchyma
noun, combining form denoting cellular tissue aerenchyma word origin
- -end
suffix indicating a person or thing that is to be dealt with in a specified way -n-lysand, dividend, multiplicand word origin -end suffix see -and