In French it’s a diminutive ending, and that’s also how it functions in most of the English words containing it. You add -ette to a noun to make a word that means ‘a small version of (noun)‘, as in cigarette, kitchenette, novelette and vanette. What are the 4 suffixes? TheRead More →
PERSON NAME SUFFIX is a textual suffix that may be added to the end of a PERSON’s name, for example, OBE, MBE, BSc, JP, GM. What does suffix mean on ancestry? The most common use is a generational suffix used to distinguish persons who share the same name within aRead More →
n. A combined backward and lateral curvature of the spine. What does Quarda mean? 1 : the plinth of a pedestal, podium, or water table. 2 : fillet, listel. 3 : a square frame or border (as about a bas-relief) What does the prefix Chondr mean? Chondr- is a combiningRead More →
Deriving from the Greek -trophikós, which means “pertaining to food or nourishment,” the suffix -troph relates to an organism’s food source. What does the suffix Troph mean in Autotroph? Filters. Organism obtaining its food in a specified way. Autotroph; chemotroph. suffix. What does the suffix Troph mean in environmental science?Read More →
position position. addition. petition. ambition. audition. fruition. ignition. volition. What are the 4 suffixes? The most common suffixes are S, ES, ED, and ING. These four suffixes are the most useful for beginning readers and spellers to learn because they appear frequently in words, and their meanings are easy toRead More →
scientific/medical word-forming element meaning “loosening, dissolving, dissolution,” from Greek lysis “a loosening, setting free, releasing; dissolution; means of letting loose,” from lyein “to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie,” from PIE root *leu- “to loosen, divide, cut apart.” What is the medical suffix for lysis? (medicine) The gradual recovery or recuperation fromRead More →