CLAS224 Word Elements. Monmouth College Monmouth, Illinois
Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu)
GREEK SUFFIXES
-ic (-ac), -tic pertaining to, like
-ics, -tics art, science, or study of
-oid like, having the shape of
-al pertaining to like, belonging to, having the character of
-an (-ian) pertaining to, like, one concerned with
-ous (-ious) full of, pertaining to like
-ician specialist in, practitioner of
-ism belief in, practice of, condition of
-ist one who believes in, one engaged in
-ite one connected with, ingabitant of
-ast, -st one who does
-t, -te he who, that which
-y, -ia quality of, state of, act of
-ma, -m, -me result of
-sis, -se, -sy ,-sin act of, a state of, the result of,
-logy science of, systematic study of
-nomy science of, system of laws governing
-cracy rule by, type of government
-crat one who advocates or practices rule by
-archy rule by
-arch one who rules
-arch(i) chief, leading
-mania madness about, passion for
-phobia abnormal fear of
-phobe one who fears or hates
-meter measure, instrument for measuring, number of feet in poetry
-metry art of science of measuring
-graph writing, instrument for writing
-graphy writing, art or science or writing
-gram thing written
-scope instrument for viewing, to view
-ize to make, to do something with, to subject to
-itis inflammation of, inflammatory disease of
-oma tumor arising in or composed of swelling, diseased condition, result of
-osis diseased condition of, act of, process of
-ectomy surgical removal of
-tomy surgical operation on, surgical cutting of
-rrhea (-rrhoea) abnormal discharge
-path one suffers from a disease of, one who treats a disease
-pathy disease of, treatment of, by
-iasis diseased condition
-therapy treatment of, by
-emia condition of the blood
-hedron solid figure with a number feet
-in, -ine chemical substance
-ium part, lining or enveloping tissue, regions
-ium, -ion little
-idium little
-arium, -arion little
-isk, -iscus little