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-ance (-ence, -ancy, -enoy, -age, etc.), state, quality, condition, or 



act, as emergency. 

 -ary (-ory, -ery), place where, as aviary. 



-ate (-ite, -ive), one who or that which is, as purgative, sedative. 

 -ate, -ose (-ous), -ulent, -aceous, abounding in or having quality 



of, as saponaceous, carbonate. 

 -cle, (-cule, -ule), minute, as molecule. 

 -escent, becoming, as evanescent. 

 -ferous, -fie, causing or producing, as soporific. 



Greek Suffixes. 



-aemia or -haemia, blood, as anaemia, pyaemia, toxaemia. 

 -agogue, to lead, to carry off, as cholagogue, sialagogue, emmena- 



gogue. 

 -algia, pain, as dermatalgia, neuralgia, odontalgia, proctalgia. 

 -cele, hernia, rupture, as cystocele, hydrocele. 

 -ectomy, extirpation, a cutting, as neurectomy, glossectomy. 

 -itis, inflammation, as enteritis, cystitis, dermatitis, otitis. 

 -logy, discourse, treatise, as pathology, biology, bacteriology, 



histology. 

 -oid, a form or image, like, as adenoid (like a gland), cuboid, 



myoid, odontoid. 

 -oma, tumor, as epithelioma, haematoma. 

 -opia, vision, as myopia (near sight). 

 -phobia, fear, as photophobia (fear of light), hydrophobia (dread 



of water). 

 -rhagia, hemorrhage, rupture, or discharge, as enterrhagia, 



menorrhagia. 

 -rhoea, transudation or flux, as diarrhoea, gonorrhoea. 



Words Derived from Latin Boots. 

 caput, the head. 



claudo, clausum, to shut, to close or finish. 

 duco, ductum, to lead or to draw. 

 fero, latum, to bear, to carry, to bring. 

 gradior, gressus, to step or to go. 

 mitto, missum, to send. 

 pes, pedis, foot. 



plico, plicatum, to bend, to fold or to knit. 

 plecto, plexum, to twine, to weave or to knit. 

 pono, positum, to put, to play or to lay. 

 specio, spectum, to see or to look. 



