-mate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared".

Word forms

-mate -mates

Etymology

From the noun mate (“fellow, comrade, partner”).

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