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-idion

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• -idium

  a diminutive suffix, corresponding to -idion, used in zoological, biological, botanical, anatomical, and chemical terms: peridium.

• -iensis

  variant of -ensis.

• -ier

  variant of -er1 , usually in nouns designating trades: collier; clothier; furrier; glazier. -ier2 a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from french, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical (bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that […]

• -iferous

  suffix containing or yielding carboniferous

• -iffic

  -ific suffix used to form adjectives extremely marked by what is indicated: horrific/ beautific [fr terrific]

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