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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Variant of -oid.
Suffix
-id
- (not productive except in zoology) of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin.
- Synonyms: -al, -an, -ite, -ar, -ese, -ic, -ish, -like, -oid, -ory, -ous, -y
- Europe + -id → Europid
- negro + -id → negrid
Etymology 2
From Middle French -ide (like also English -ide), French -ide, and their sources, Latin -id-, -is and Ancient Greek -ῐδ- (-id-), -ῐς (-is).
Suffix
-id
- (botany) Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources.
- (astronomy) Forming common names of meteors from their apparent constellation of origin.
The Perseid meteor shower's radiant is in the constellation of Perseus.
- (zoology) Forming common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.
A felid is a member of Felidae.
- (dentistry, paleontology) Forming names of dental features found in lower (mandibular) teeth.
- protocone (“cusp of an upper molar”) + -id → protoconid (“equivalent for lower molars”)
- (history) Forming the names of certain dynasties, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning "descendant(s) of".
- Solomon → Solomonid, Umayya → Umayyad, Idris → Idrisid, Genghis Khan → Genghisid, Ismail Safavi → Safavid
See also
Anagrams
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
-i (possessive plural) + -d (second-person singular personal suffix)
Suffix
-id
- (possessive suffix) your ... -s (second-person singular informal, multiple possessions)
- kapu (“gate”) + -id → a kapuid (“your gates”)
- palota (“palace”) + -id → a palotáid (“your palaces”)
- érme (“coin”) + -id → az érméid (“your coins”)
Usage notes
- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -id is added to words ending in a vowel except -i. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -aid is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -eid is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -jaid is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i
- -jeid is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i
Declension
For back vowel words:
For front vowel words:
Etymology 2
Suffix
-id
- (chemistry) -ide (indicating a binary compound)
Derived terms
See also
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish -id, from Proto-Celtic *-īti from Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti.
Suffix
-id m
- Agent suffix
- slane (“whole, entire”) + -id → slanid (“entirety, totality”)
Derived terms
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *-jtē, originally the partitive/ablative plural form. Cognate with the Finnish partitive plural -ja, -ia, -ita.
The genitive plural originally had the ending -i, from Proto-Samic *-j. It was eliminated in favour of the accusative ending by analogy with the singular, where these cases fell together naturally.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-id
- The ending of the accusative and genitive plural.
Usage notes
- This suffix triggers the weak grade on a preceding stressed syllable.
Ojibwe
Suffix
-id
- A suffix denoting the third-person singular to first-person singular conjunct form of a transitive animate verb (vta)
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *-yatis, an Insular extension of *-atis, itself an extension of the abstract suffix Proto-Indo-European *-tis extracted from laryngeal-final roots.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-id m
- Forms a noun of agency.
- from verb or verbal noun
- serc (“love”) + -id → sercaid (“lover”)
- from noun
- mucc (“pig”) + -id → muccaid (“swineherd”)
- ainmm (“name”) + -id → ainmmnid (“nominative case”) = "namer"
Usage notes
- This suffix forms i-stem nouns.
Inflection
| Masculine i-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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-id
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-idL
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-idiH
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| Vocative
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-id
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-idL
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-idiH
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| Accusative
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-idN
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-idL
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-idiH
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| Genitive
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-edoH, -edaH
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-edoH, -edaH
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-ideN
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| Dative
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-idL
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-idib
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-idib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ McCone, Kim (1995) “OIr. Senchae, Senchaid and Preliminaries on Agent Noun Formation in Celtic”, in Ériu, volume 46, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved 1 March 2023, pages 1–10
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /it/
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: id
Suffix
-id m
- -ide
- amoniak + -id → amid
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- -id in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin -īte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of fourth conjugation verbs).
Suffix
-id
- used to form the informal second-person plural imperative mood of -ir verbs
- venir (“to come”) + -id → ¡Venid! (“Come!”)
Volapük
Suffix
-id
- Forms an ordinal number (adjective) from a cardinal number.
Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Suffix
-id
- forming abstract nouns, -ness, -ment
- cadarn (“strong, robust, sturdy”) + -id → cadernid (“strength, robustness, sturdiness”)
- rhydd (“free”) + -id → rhyddid (“freedom”)
Usage notes
-i causes i-affection of internal vowels.
Etymology 2
Suffix
-id
- (literary) verb suffix for the impersonal imperfect/conditional
Usage notes
-id causes i-affection of internal vowels, for example, canu (“to sing”) + -id → cenid (“was being sung, one was singing, would sing, one would sing”).
Derived terms