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-ress

suffix
/ɹɪs/UK

Etymology

From -er + -ess.

  1. derived from -ισσα
  2. derived from -issa
  3. derived from -esse
  4. inherited from -esse
  5. formed as -ress — “-er + -ess”

Definitions

  1. Forms feminine agent nouns.

The neighborhood

  • antonymhe-antonym(s) of “feminine affix”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ress. 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