-iatry
a combining form occurring in compound words that have the general sense “healing, medical practice,” with the initial element usually denoting the area treated:
podiatry; psychiatry.
-iatry
combining form
indicating healing or medical treatment psychiatry compare -iatrics
derived forms
word origin
-iatry suff.
medical treatment: psychiatry.
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variant of -ably: credibly; visibly.
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a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in greek and latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses “having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the base noun) (balletic; soph-m-ric); “in the style of” (byronic; miltonic); […]
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a combination of -ic and -al1 , used in forming adjectives from nouns (rhetorical), providing synonyms to words ending in -ic, (poetical), and providing an adjective with additional meanings to those in the -ic, form (economical). -ical suffix a variant of -ic economical, fanatical derived forms word origin -ical adj. suffix, mostly the same as […]