-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
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- -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
- -uria
a combining form with the meanings “presence in the urine” of that specified by the initial element (alb-minuria; pyuria), “condition of the urinary tract,” “tendency to urinate,” as specified (polyuria). -uria combining form indicating a diseased or abnormal condition of the urine dysuria, pyuria derived forms -uric, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek -ouria, from ouron […]