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-Ee
- - A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.
-En
- - A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, such as children and brethren, it has been added to older plural forms.
-Ent
- - An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.
-Er
- - . 1. [AS. -ere; akin to L. -arius.] The termination of many English words, denoting the agent; -- applied either to men or things; as in hater, farmer, heater, grater. At the end of names of places, -er signifies a man of the place; as, Londoner, i. e., London man.
-Ess
- - A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.
-Est
- - A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
-Et
- - A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
-Ful
- - A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
-Fy
- - A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
-Gen
- - A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.