-ine
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-ine¹
- /-aɪ̯n/
- /-in/
- /-ɪn/
- /-ən/
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en § Etymology 4.
suffix
- Of or pertaining to. asinine, marine, bovine, cervine
- Used to form demonyms. Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine
- Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements. amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine
- used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine
- Commercial materials. glass + -ine → glassine
-ine²
- /-aɪ̯n/
- /-in/
- /-ɪn/
- /-ən/
Where it comes from
From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus. Doublet of -ina.
suffix
- Used to form feminine nouns. hero + -ine → heroine
- Used to form female given names or names of titles. Clement + -ine → Clementine
-ine³
- /-aɪ̯n/
- /-in/
- /-ɪn/
- /-ən/
Where it comes from
Variant of -en § Etymology 2.
suffix
- Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive. cow + -ine → kine
-ine⁴
- /-aɪ̯n/
- /-in/
- /-ɪn/
- /-ən/
Where it comes from
From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as § Etymology 1.
suffix
- used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies cardueline, velociraptorine
