English Explanatory Dictionary

-ery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
  2. Added to verbs to form nouns meaning "place of" (an art, craft, or practice).
  3. Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
  4. Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "behavior characteristic of."
suffix
  1. Forming adjectives.

Pronunciation

/əɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--ery.wav

Word forms

-ery -eries -erie -ry more -ery most -ery

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery From Middle English -erie, from Anglo-Norman -erie, which is from -ier + -ie; a suffix forming abstract nouns. The suffix first occurs in loans from Old French into Middle English, but becomes productive within English by the 16th century, in some instances properly a combination of the agent suffix -er with -y as in bakery, brewery, but also as a single suffix in terms like slavery, machinery (which are not derived from slaver or machiner). By surface analysis, -er + -y.

Synonyms

-ing -age

Translations

Hungarian: -ászat Hungarian: -észet Hungarian: -ság Hungarian: -ség Hungarian: -ás Hungarian: -és Hungarian: -da Hungarian: -de Interlingua: -eria Middle English: -erie Polish: -eria Polish: -nia Catalan: -eria Esperanto: -ejo French: -erie Italian: -eria Lithuanian: -ykla Norwegian Bokmål: -ri Portuguese: -aria Romanian: -ărie Spanish: -ería
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