REVIEW OF SUFFIXES ADDED TO VERB BASES

Suffixes, Chapter 6

Learn suffix, meaning, a word using each and fill in two additional words using each, part of speech it forms and any other blanks. n. = forms nouns; a. = forms adjectives; v. = forms verbs. These suffixes are added to the present base.

-acious (a.) "tending to" rapacious

-ble (a.) _____________________ affable

-bulum, -ble (n.) "place for/thing for" stable, infundibulum (a funnel-shaped bodily passage)

-culum, -cle ( ) "means, place for, thing for" curriculum, vehicle

-fy (v.) "to make" clarify

-fic (a.) "making" beatific -fication (n.) floccinaucinihilipilification

-id ( ) "tending to" flaccid, insipid

-igate ( ) ______________________ fumigate

-ile ( ) "able to be" fragile, docile

-ion (n.) ______________________ region, opinion

-ium, -y ( ) _____________________ tedium, soliloquy

-men ( ) "result/means of" specimen

-ment ( ) ___________________ segment

-nd, -ndum (n.) "that which must be" analysand, subtrahend

-ndous (a.) "of that which must be" tremendous

-nce, ncy (n.) "condition of ------ ing" stance, consistency

-nt (a.) "-ing" resilient, salient

(n.) "someone ---ing, something ---ing" tenant, pendant

-or (n.) "condition of being" squalor

-sc- (-esce, -isce), -ish (v.) "begin" convalesce, flourish

-ulous ( ) ______________________ credulous

-uous ( ) _______________________ tenuous, perspicuous

 

Suffixes for Chapter 7

These suffixes are added to the ppp base.

Fill in the blanks: part of speech, meaning, derivatives (3 or more).

-ate (v.) "keep doing" hesitate [frequentative suffix]

(-it- visit)

-ible (a.) "able to be" ____________________________________

-ile ( ) ________________________ ductile

-ion [-sion/-tion] ( ) _______________________________ extortion, secession

-ive ( ) _____________________________________ attractive

-or ( ) _________________________________ motor, censor

-orious, -ory, -orial ( ) "pertaining to" cernsorious, auditory, gustatorial

-ure ( ) __________________________ lecture, censure, texture, capture, nature, stricture, picture, tonsure, fissure, culture, structure, stature, juncture, fracture, pressure, rapture, torture

-us (n.) "act, result of" -us in words directly from Latin, e.g. census, nexus, prospectus, conspectus, consensus, status. The suffix shows up as -u- in words with an additional suffix especially in adjectives formed from nouns in -us, e.g. textual, visual, consensual, processual, casual, actual. In many words the suffix does not show at all, as for example, text, sense, process, case, act.

-ate (v.) from ch. 4 added to noun bases "make, do, cause" exacerbate

 

Summary of Suffixes added to verb bases

Fill in meaning, which base each is added to, and 2 words using it:

Noun-forming suffixes:

-ble

-cle, -culum

-ion

-ium, -y

-men

-ment

-nce, -ncy

-nd (-ndum)

-or (present)

-or (ppp) / fem. -(t)rix creatrix aviatrix

-ure

-us (ppp) sense, consensus

 

Adjective-forming suffixes:

-acious

-ble

-id

-ile

-ive

-ndous

-nt

-orious, -ory

-ulous

-uous

 

Verb-forming suffixes:

-ate

-sc-

Verbal suffixes added to noun, adjective, and adverb bases:

-ate (v.)

-cide (n.)

-fy (v.), -fic (adj.), -fication (n.)

-igate (v.)

Review paper: Prefixes and suffixes

1. Give a basic meaning and a word using each:

2. Using some of the words on p. 97, see how many prefixes you can attach to each. Especially try these:

3. Suffixes: study list of suffixes; fill in a word using each; tell which base it is added to.

4. Give three suffixes meaning and a word using each

 

5. Match with meanings

  1. -nd -ing
  2. -cide -making
  3. -ate -means of
  4. -cle -pertaining to
  5. -nt -killer of
  6. -ory -that which must be
  7. -men -thing for
  8. -fic -begin
  9. -sce -do intensively

6. Take apart and give meanings of parts

  1. inconspicuous   
  2. condescension
  3. readmittance
  4. corrigenda
  5. credulous
  6. prevalent
  7. admonition
  8. cohesive
  9. precursor
  10. efficacious
  11. convalescent