List of English suffixes

From Academic Kids

This is an incomplete list of suffixes in English:

suffix	Meaning	Samples
-ad	group	triad, monad
-agogy	leading	pedagogy, demagogy
-arch	ruler, leader	monarch, tetrarch
-archy	rule, leadership	gynarchy, anarchy
-athlon	sporting event	pentathlon, decathlon
-cele, -coele, -coel	body cavity	mucocoel or mucocoele
-cele	tumor, hernia	hydatidocele
-centesis	puncturing	amniocentesis, rachicentesis
-chondrion	small grainlike structure	mitochondrion
-cide	murder, killing agent	suicide, vespacide, regicide
-cracy	rule,	kakistocracy, democracy, androcracy
-cy	expressing the quality of an adjective	peccancy, agency, idiocy
-cycle	circle, cycle, unit of radio frequency	epicycle, hydrocycle
-ectasia, -ectasis	stretching out	brochiectasis, telangiectasia
-ectomy	surgical removal	laryngectomy, vasectomy
-emesis	vomiting	hematemesis, hyperemesis
-emia	blood condition	leukemia, anaemia
-enchyma	cellular tissue	mesenchyma, karyenchyma
-esque	in the style of	Pythonesque, Romanesque
-ess	female	actress, waitress, stewardess
-esthesis, -esthesia	sensation, feeling	synesthesia, kinesthesis
-fugal	fuge, driving or travelling away from, expelling	centrifugal
-ful	full of, having some or much	hopeful, useful
-gate	a scandal, often political (back-formed from the Watergate scandal)	- Watergate, nipplegate
-gon	geometric shape	polygon, pentagon
-gry	adjective form of only 2 or 3 nouns in the English language	anger, hunger
-hedron	geometric solid	icosahedron, tetrahedron
-holic	love, addiction	alcoholic
-ic
-icle	originally referring to a spike-like formation	see wiktionary:-icle
-id	skin rash	syphilid
-ism	doctrine, act, practice, condition	Protestantism, alcoholism, Buddhism, southernism
-ist	person	dentist
-itis	disease, inflammation	hepatitis, gingivitis
-itude	attitude, certitude
-ity	expressing state or condition	normality, formality, banality
-ium	metallic element (exception: helium)	sodium, Calcium
-kinesis	movement (ability thereof)	telekinesis
-less	lack of	homeless, useless
-let	diminutive, or denoting a relation to some part of the body	ringlet, hamlet, anklet
-ly	-like, having the attributes of; In modern English, primarily changes adjectives to adverbs; also changes some nouns to adjectives and some (past-tense) verbs to adverbs	quick(adj) >quickly(adv), state(n) > stately(adj), abashed(v) > abashedly(adv)
-mancy	divination by	crystallomancy, bibliomancy, necromancy
-mania	an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action	kleptomania, megalomania, mythomania
-ography or -ogram	writing, description	stenography, geography, ideogram
-oid	resembling	solenoid, hominoid
-ology	study, science	planetology, thyroidology, phthisiology
-omics	area of biology	proteomics
-onomy	knowledge of	astronomy
-onym	name, word	antonym, consonym, heteronym
-osis	process, action	mitosis, osmosis
-osis	formation	ostosis
-osis	diseased condition	psychosis
-phagy, -phagia	eating	monophagy
-philia	attraction	hemophilia
-phobia	fear	acrophobia, mysophobia
-phone	sound, audio	telephone, homophone
-polis	referring to city or big area	Metropolis
-potent (or potence)	power	omnipotent, equipotent, impotence
-science	knowing	omniscience
-scope	from Greek skopos, view; instrument for viewing and observing spaces	microscope, telescope
-ship	circle, state of being	friendship, relationship
-stan	land, country	Afghanistan
-tropism	to turn	phototropism
-us	inflammation	ulcus (ulcer)
-ward	direction	southward
-wise	direction	clockwise