Latin Suffixes OF NOUNS

(1) Denoting chiefly the agent or doer of a thing.

-- ain (-an, -en, -on) ; chieftain, artisan, citizen, surgeon.

-- air, (-er, -eer, -ier, -ary ); scholar, preacher, engineer, financier, missionary.

-- ate (-ee, -ey, -y) ; advocate, trustee, attorney, deputy.

-- or, (-our, -eur, -er); emperor, saviour, amateur, inteipreter.

(2) Denoting state, action, result of an action.

-- age; bondage, marriage, breakage, leakage.

-- ance (-ence); abundance, brilliance, assistance, excellence, innocence.

-- cy; fancy, accuracy, lunacy, bankruptcy.

-- ion; action, opinion, union.

-- ice (-ise) ; service, cowardice, exercise.

-- ent ; punishment, judgement, improvement.

-- mony ; parsimony, matrimony, testimony.

-- tude ; servitude, fortitude, magnitude.

-- ty ; cruelty, frailty, credulity.

-- ure ; pleasure, forfeiture, verdure.

-- y ; misery, victory.

(3) Forming diminutives.

-- cule (-ule, -eel, -sel, -el, -le); animalcule, globule, parcel, damsel, chapel, circle.

-- et; owlet, lancet, trumpet.

-- ette ; cigarette, coquette.

(4) Denoting place.

-- ary (-ery, -ry); dispensary, library, nunnery, treasury.

-- ter (tre) ; cloister; theatre.