A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word that changes the word’s meaning. A suffix is a word part added to the end of a word that changes the word’s meaning. Learning the meanings of prefixes and suffixes will help expand your vocabulary, which will help improve your writing.

2nd Root Word Definition: Suffix: -scopy. Suffix Definition: visual examination. Definition: visual examination of the colon (large intestine)

The compound word colonoscopy consists of the Greek words τó κóλον (colon, also known as τó ´εντερον: enteron), and σκοπia (scopia, or σκóπησις, scopesis).

A suffix is a word part added to the end of a word (for example, -ful). If you add the suffix -ful to the base word, help, the word is helpful. A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word or base word (for example, un-). If the prefix un- is added to helpful, the word is unhelpful.

A name suffix, in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person’s full name and provides additional information about the person. Post-nominal letters indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honor (e.g. “PhD”, “CCNA”, “OBE”).

Prefix definition: an affix attached to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning. Suffix definition: a particle attached to the end of a word to modify its meaning or change it into a different word class.

○The suffix –ly means in. a certain way.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word which makes a new word. In the table above, the suffix -ful has changed verbs to adjectives, -ment, and -ion have changed verbs to nouns. If you see a word ending in -ment, for example, it is likely to be a noun (e.g. commitment, contentment).

What does a suffix refer to? a word part affixed to the end of a word. What does a word root refer to? a word part that provides the primary meaning.

Modern usage In medicine the suffix -physis occurs in such compounds as symphysis, epiphysis, and a few others, in the sense of “a growth”. The physis also refers to the “growth plate”, or site of growth at the end of long bones.

front vowel harmony variant -ys

Words ending in “-us” are masculine; words ending in “-um” are neuter. This is in the very common “second declension”, and most of the words we imported were either masculine or neuter. (There’s also a “-a” ending, first declension. “Declensions” are groups of words that all take the same endings in the same usage.)

Ous

It represents the second declension masculine (and rarely feminine) nominative ending. The reason we see the -us ending is because the second declension nominative suffix for Latin is -us instead of -os.

Word Origin for -ous from Old French, from Latin -ōsus or -us, Greek -os, adj suffixes.

-ous, suffix. -ous is attached to roots to form adjectives with the meaning “possessing, full of (a given quality)”:glory + -ous → glorious; covet + -ous → covetous;nerve + -ous → nervous.

full of virtue

1a : having or exhibiting virtue. b : morally excellent : righteous a virtuous decision. 2 : chaste. 3 : potent, efficacious.

A virtuous woman is described as a woman whose price is above ‘Rubies’. She is a woman who cannot be bought with any currency in the world; no price can be placed on her. An absolute description of a virtuous woman can be found in the bible (Prov. 31:10-23).

A virtuous woman is a woman of worth and beauty. Though an inner beauty has a priority in the Bible, the Proverbs 31 does not neglect the appearance of a woman. A virtuous woman uses her business skills to provide attractive clothing for herself using her creativity and sense of style.

mine too, so, let’s go!

• A virtuous woman is priceless.
• She is strong, solid, disciplined, and trustworthy.
• She is a confident woman, ambitious, energetic, and resourceful.