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• -ity

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• -ium

  a suffix found on nouns borrowed from latin, especially derivatives of verbs (odium; tedium; colloquium; delirium), deverbal compounds with the initial element denoting the object of the verb (nasturtium), other types of compounds (equilibrium; millennium), and derivatives of personal nouns, often denoting the -ssociated status or office (collegium; consortium; magisterium); -ium, also occurs in scientific […]

• -ive

  a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: active; corrective; destructive; detective; p-ssive; sportive. -ive suffix (forming adjectives) indicating a tendency, inclination, character, or quality divisive, prohibitive, festive, m-ssive (forming nouns of adjectival origin) detective, expletive word origin -ive sufix forming adjectives from verbs, meaning “pertaining to, tending […]

• -ivus

  a suffix appearing in latin scientific names: exfoliativus.

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