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• -ion

  a suffix, appearing in words of latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in latin and in english to form nouns from stems of latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and especially past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion). -ion suffix indicating an action, process, or state creation, objection compare -ation, -tion word origin

• -ior

  a suffix of comparatives appearing in words of latin origin: superior; ulterior; junior.

• -ious

  variant of -ous, added to stems of latin origin, often with corresponding nouns ending in -ity: atrocious; hilarious. -ious suffix characterized by or full of ambitious, religious, suspicious compare -eous word origin

• -isation

  chiefly british variant of -ization.

• -ise

  chiefly british. variant of -ize: organise. usage note -ise2 a noun suffix, occurring in loanwords from french, indicating quality, condition, or function: franchise; merchandise. -ise suffix a variant of -ize -ize suffix to cause to become, resemble, or agree with legalize to become; change into crystallize to affect in a specified way; subject to hypnotize […]

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