Suffixes

able, ible

able, capable (visible)

age

act of, state of, result of (wreckage)

al

relating to (gradual)

algia

pain (myalgia)

an, ian

native of, relating to (riparian)

ance, ancy

action, process, state (defiance)

ary, ery, ory

relating to, quality, place (aviary)

cian

processing a specific skill or art (physician)

cule, ling

very small (sapling, animalcule)

cy

action, function (normalcy)

dom

quality, realm (wisdom)

ee

one who receives the action (nominee)

en

made of, to make (silken)

ence, ency

action, state of, quality (urgency)

er, or

one who, that which (professor)

escent

in the process of (adolescent, senescence)

esis, osis

action, process, condition (genesis, neurosis)

et, ette

small one, group (baronet, lorgnette)

fic

making, causing (specific)

ful

full of (frightful)

hood

order, condition, quality (adulthood)

ice

condition, state, quality (malice)

id, ide

connected with, belonging to (bromide)

ile

relating to, suited for, capable of (puerile, juvenile)

ine

nature of (feminine)

ion, sion, tion

act, result, state of (contagion)

ish

origin, nature, resembling (impish)

ism

system, manner, condition, characteristic (capitalism)

ist

one who, that which (artist, flautist)

ite

nature of, quality of, mineral product (graphite)

ity, ty

state of, quality (captivity)

ive

causing, making (exhaustive)

ize, ise

make (idolize, bowdlerize)

ment

act of, state of, result (containment)

nomy

law (autonomy, taxonomy)

oid

resembling (asteroid, anthropoid)

some

like, apt, tending to (gruesome)

strat

cover (strata)

tude

state of, condition of (aptitude)

um

forms of single nouns (spectrum)

ure

state of, act, process, rank (rupture, rapture)

ward

in the direction of (backward)

y

inclined to, tend to (faulty)