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-oid

suffix
/-ɔɪd/CA/-oɪd/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -ο-ειδής (-o-eidḗs) (the ο being the last vowel of the stem to which the suffix is attached); from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).

  1. derived from -ο-ειδής
  2. learned borrowing from -oīdēs

Definitions

  1. Resembling

    Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).

    • human + -oid → humanoid
    • sterol + -oid → steroid
    • ellipse + -oid → ellipsoid

  2. Of, pertaining to, or related to.

    • lympho- + -oid → lymphoid
    • myelo- + -oid → myeloid
    • aster- + -oid → asteroid

  3. Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology…

    Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.

    • waste + -oid → wastoid
    • west + -oid → westoid
    • left + -oid → leftoid
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal…

      Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.

      • group + -oid → groupoid
      • ring + -oid → ringoid
      • Lie algebra + -oid → Lie algebroid

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -oid. 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