-ine

suffix

/-aɪn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.

derived from *-iHnos✻
derived from -īnus
derived from -in
inherited from -in

Definitions

1
Of or pertaining to.
- asinine, marine, bovine, cervine
2
Used to form demonyms.
- Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine
3
Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances,…
Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.
- amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine
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1. 4
  used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera
  - australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine
2. 5
  Commercial materials.
  - glass + -ine → glassine
3. 6
  Used to form feminine nouns.
  - hero + -ine → heroine
  - speaker + -ine → speakerine
  - Paul + -ine → Pauline
4. 7
  Used to form female given names or names of titles.
  - Clement + -ine → Clementine
  - landgrave + -ine → landgravine
5. 8
  Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.
  - cow + -ine → kine
  - sow + -ine → swine
6. 9
  used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies
  - cardueline, velociraptorine

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ine. 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