English Explanatory Dictionary

-nasty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix

relating to a nastic change

Word forms

-nasty

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναστός (nastós, “pressed”), from the verb νάσσω (nássō). By surface analysis, -nast + -y.

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