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• -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).

• -kinetic

  a combining form found on adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -kinesia, or -kinesis: bradykinetic.

• -lagnia

  a combining form meaning “coition,” used in the formation of compound words: algolagnia.

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