Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryforming nouns of action or process · forming nouns of condition · forming additional nouns
Ultimately from Ancient Greek -σις (-sis, “forms noun of action”), often via Latin or French. Identical in meaning with Latin -entia, English -ing.
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- Derivation mention-σιςgrc · forms noun of action
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