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-ory

suffix
/-(ə)ɹi/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory From Middle English -orie, from the Latin adjective suffix -tōrius. By surface analysis, -or + -y.

  1. inherited from -orie

Definitions

  1. Added to nouns and verbs (often Latinate) to form adjectives meaning “of”, “pertaining…

    Added to nouns and verbs (often Latinate) to form adjectives meaning “of”, “pertaining to”, or “serving for”.

    • excrete + -ory → excretory
    • sense + -ory → sensory
    • statute + -ory → statutory

  2. Added to nouns and verbs (often Latinate) to form nouns meaning “that which pertains to…

    Added to nouns and verbs (often Latinate) to form nouns meaning “that which pertains to or serves for”.

    • ambulate + -ory → ambulatory
    • incense + -ory → incensory
    • interrogate + -ory → interrogatory

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ory. 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