-there
a combining form meaning “wild animal, beast,” used in the formation of compound words, usually denoting extinct mammals, as adaptions of zoological taxa ending in -therium or -theria: baluchithere.
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- -therm
variant of thermo- as final element in compound words: isotherm. -therm suff. an organism having a specified kind of body temperature: exotherm.
- -thermy
a combining form meaning “heat,” “heat generation,” used in the formation of compound words: diathermy. -thermy combining form indicating heat diathermy derived forms -thermic, -thermal, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from new latin -thermia, from greek thermē -thermy suff. heat: diathermy.
- -thon
a suffix extracted from marathon, occurring as the final element in compounds which have the general sense “an event, as a sale or contest, drawn out to unusual length, often until a prearranged goal, as the contribution of a certain amount of money, is reached”: walkathon; readathon . also, -a-thon, -thon. -thon suffix indicating a […]
- -thymia
a combining form used in the formation of compound words that denote mental disorders, as specified by the initial element: alexithymia; cyclothymia; dysthymia. -thymia combining form indicating a certain emotional condition, mood, or state of mind cyclothymia word origin new latin, from greek thumos temper -thymia suff. state or condition of mind: dysthymia.
- -tic
a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of greek origin (-n-lytic), used especially in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis: hematotic; neurotic.