-oid
Meanings
suffix
- Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
- Of, pertaining to, or related to.
- Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.
- Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -ο-ειδής (-o-eidḗs) (the ο being the last vowel of the stem to which the suffix is attached); from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Synonyms
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