-ulous
a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from latin, with the meaning “inclined to do, habitually engaging in” the action specified by the initial element:
bibulous; credulous; garrulous; tremulous.
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- -um
suffix indicating a metallic element platinum, barium (in chemistry) indicating groups forming positive ions ammonium chloride, hydroxonium ion indicating a biological structure syncytium word origin new latin, from latin, from greek -ion, diminutive suffix
- -ure
an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from french and latin: pressure; legislature. -ure suffix indicating act, process, or result seizure indicating function or office legislature, prefecture word origin from french, from latin -ūra -ure suffix forming abstract nouns of action, from o.fr. -ure, from l. -ura.
- -uret
a suffix used in chemical terminology, identical in sense with -ide, which has now generally replaced it: carburet (now carbide); phosphuret (now phosphide). -uret suffix formerly used to form the names of binary chemical compounds word origin from new latin -uretum
- -uretic
-uretic suff. urine: diuretic.
- -urgy
a combining form occurring in loanwords from greek, where it meant “work” (dramaturgy): on this model, used in the formation of compound words (metallurgy). -urgy combining form indicating technology concerned with a specified material metallurgy word origin from greek -urgia, from ergonwork