-ine

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to.
2. Used to form demonyms.
3. Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.
4. used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera
5. Commercial materials.

1. Used to form feminine nouns.
2. Used to form female given names or names of titles.

1. Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.

1. used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.