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91-acity — aff. a suffix forming nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in acious: tenacity • Etymology: ME « L ācitās. See acious, ity …
92-acy — aff. a suffix of nouns of quality, state, or office, many of which correspond to nouns or adjectives in ate: accuracy, delicacy; piracy • Etymology: < L ātia= āt ate I+ ia y III …
93-adelphous — aff. a combining form meaning “having stamens growing together in bundles” of the number specified by the initial element: monadelphous[/ex] • Etymology: < NL < Gk adelphos, der. of adelphós brother …
94-aemia — aff. var. of emia: anaemia[/ex] …
95-age — aff. a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring orig. in loanwords from French (courage; voyage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process”… …
96-agog — aff. var. of agogue …
97-aholic — aff. a combining form extracted from alcoholic, used in coinages having the general sense “a person who is addicted to or obsessed with an object or activity,” as specified by the initial element: chargeaholic; foodaholic Compare holic …
98-ales — aff. a suffix of names of plant orders in botany: Cycadales[/ex] • Etymology: < NL …
99-algy — aff. var. of algia: coxalgy[/ex] …
100-ally — aff. an adverbial suffix attached to certain adjectives ending in ic: terrifically[/ex] …
