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-ane

suffix
/eɪn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānusder. English -ane From Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "belonging to" or "origin from". Doublet of English -an.

  1. derived from -ānus

Definitions

  1. Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes…

    Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes alone (mundane).

  2. A saturated hydrocarbon

    A saturated hydrocarbon; an alkane.

  3. A simple binary compound of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ane. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA