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-ose¹

  • /-əʊs/ UK
  • /-oʊs/ US
  • /-əʊz/ UK
  • /-oʊz/ US

Sounds like ose, oes, ohs, Os, o's, owes (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊs, -əʊz

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin -ōsus. Doublet of -ous in stressed position. Often associated or conflated with the unrelated suffix -osis by folk etymology (e.g. prionose : prionosis; prionose : prionosis).

suffix more -ose · most -ose

  1. especially, morpheme, often Full of; affected by. comatose

    Similar: -ful

  2. especially, morpheme, often Having or characterized by the presence of. cystose

    Similar: -ous, -some, -ate, -ed, -ic, -ish, -like, -ly, -oid

  3. especially, morpheme, often Resembling, similar to (especially in shape or appearance). cystose

Opposite: -less

-ose²

  • /-əʊs/ UK
  • /-oʊs/ US
  • /-əʊz/ UK
  • /-oʊz/ US

Sounds like ose, oes, ohs, Os, o's, owes (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊs, -əʊz

suffix

  1. especially, morpheme, often Used to form the names of sugars.
  2. especially, morpheme, often Used to indicate a product of protein breakdown.

-ose³

  • /-əʊs/ UK
  • /-oʊs/ US
  • /-əʊz/ UK
  • /-oʊz/ US

Sounds like ose, oes, ohs, Os, o's, owes (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊs, -əʊz

Where it comes from

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )

From a combination of sources, mainly nouns ending in -osis (or in origin from Latin -ōsis, French -ose), by processes of back-formation and analogy; possibly influenced adjectives ending in the unrelated -ose (Latin -ōsus) with an implicit function “to become [adjective]” (compare anastomose (verb) : anastomose (adjective)).

suffix -oses · -osing · -osed

  1. especially, morpheme, often Occurs in some verbs derived from nouns in -osis, with an inchoative meaning “to undergo [a process]”. metamorphosis + -ose → metamorphose

    Similar: -esce

Thesaurus

suffix

Opposite: -less

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suffix suffix used to form the names of sugars

Español-osa
中文-糖 -táng
Português-ose
Français-ose
Italiano-osio

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Chicago

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@misc{ose_2026,
  title = {-ose},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-ose},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}