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-ine

//-aɪn// suffix

Definitions

Suffix
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to. idiomatic, morpheme

    "asinine, marine, bovine, cervine"

  2. 2
    Used to form feminine nouns. idiomatic, morpheme

    "hero + -ine → heroine"

  3. 3
    Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive. morpheme

    "cow + -ine → kine"

  4. 4
    used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies morpheme

    "cardueline, velociraptorine"

  5. 5
    Used to form demonyms. morpheme

    "Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine"

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  1. 6
    Used to form female given names or names of titles. idiomatic, morpheme

    "Clement + -ine → Clementine"

  2. 7
    Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements. morpheme

    "amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine"

  3. 8
    used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera morpheme

    "australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine"

  4. 9
    Commercial materials. morpheme

    "glass + -ine → glassine"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.

Etymology 2

From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus.

Etymology 3

Variant of -en.

Etymology 4

From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.

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