-ization
a combination of -ize and -ation:
civilization.
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- -ize
a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from greek that have entered english through latin or french (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within english, -ize, is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses “to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; […]
- -ji
/-dziː/ suffix (indian) a suffix placed after a person’s name or t-tle as a mark of respect word origin
- -kin
a diminutive suffix of nouns: lambkin. -kin suffix small lambkin word origin -kin dim. suffix, first attested mid-13c. in proper names adopted from flanders and holland, probably from m.du. -kin, properly a double-dim., from -k + -in. equivalent to ger. -chen.
- -kinesia
a combining form with the meaning “movement, muscular activity,” used in the formation of compound words: dyskinesia; hyperkinesia.
- -kinesis
a combining form with the general sense “movement, activity,” used in the formation of compound words, often with the particular senses “reaction to a stimulus” (photokinesis), “movement without an apparent physical cause” (telekinesis), “activity within a cell” (karyokinesis).