-osis

suffix

/-əʊ.sɪs/UK/-oʊ.sɪs/CA/-əʉ.sɪs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).

derived from -ωσις
learned borrowing from -ōsis

Definitions

functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
process, action such as phagocytosis
formation, increase such as leukocytosis

The neighborhood

neighbor-exia
neighbor-iasis
neighbor-itis
neighbor-otic
neighborTemplate:Helminthiases

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -osis. 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