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• -pathy

  a combining form occurring in loanwords from greek, where it meant “suffering,” “feeling” (antipathy; sympathy); in compound words of modern formation, often used with the meaning “morbid affection,” “disease” (arthropathy; deuteropathy; neuropathy; psychopathy), and hence used also in names of systems or methods of treating disease (allopathy; homeopathy; hydropathy; osteopathy). compare -path, -pathia. -pathy combining […]

• -ped

  a combining form with the meaning “having a foot” of the kind specified by the initial element: pinnatiped. also, -pede. compare -pod. -ped combining form foot or feet quadruped, centipede word origin from latin pēs, ped- foot

• -pede

  variant of -ped: centipede. -ped combining form foot or feet quadruped, centipede word origin from latin pēs, ped- foot -pede combining form a variant of -ped

• -penia

  a combining form used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “lack, deficiency,” as specified by the initial element: leukopenia. -penia suff. lack; deficiency: leukopenia.

• -person

  a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, s-x-specific forms as -man, and -woman, or -er1, and -ess: chairperson; salesperson; waitperson. usage note -person suffix sometimes used instead of -man and -woman or -lady chairperson, salesperson -man

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