-icle
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-icle¹
Where it comes from
From a back-formation of icicle, the second element of which ultimately from Old English ġicel (“icicle, ice”). More at icicle, ickle.
suffix
- Alternative form of -sicle.-sicle brinicle, limicle, rusticle, snoticle
-icle²
Where it comes from
From Latin -culus (diminutive suffix).
suffix -culus · -culum · -cule · -ule · -ole
- Used to form diminutive nouns. thesis + -icle → thesicle
