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Pronunciation
- -oid
- /-ɔɪ̯d/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
- /-oɪ̯d/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /-ɔ(ː)jɖ/ (India)
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”).
Meanings
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(morpheme) Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
human + -oid → humanoid
ellipse + -oid → ellipsoid
sterol + -oid → steroid
geo- + -oid → geoid
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(morpheme, uncommon) Of, pertaining to, or related to.
myelo- + -oid → myeloid
lympho- + -oid → lymphoid
aster- + -oid → asteroid
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(morpheme) Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.
right + -oid → rightoid
left + -oid → leftoid
waste + -oid → wastoid
goblin + -oid → goblinoid
west + -oid → westoid
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(morpheme) Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.
monoid + -oid → monoidoid
Lie algebra + -oid → Lie algebroid
ring + -oid → ringoid
group + -oid → groupoid
Coordinates
-id · -ic · -y · -ese · quasi- · -ous · -ian · -ory · -an · -al · -ar · -ish · -ate
Synonyms
quasi- (resembling) · -ly (resembling) · -y (resembling) · -iform (resembling) · -esque (resembling) · para- (resembling) · -ish (resembling) · -form (resembling) · -ass (resembling; restricted to casual registers) · -some (resembling) · -like (resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only)
Translations (22)
ang -hīwe (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · la -oīdēs (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · ang -hīwed (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · grc -ειδής (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · ca -oide (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · el -ειδές (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · it -oide (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · nl -oïde (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · el -ειδής (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · pl -oid (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · cmn 類 /类 (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · ang -hīwede (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · fr -oïde (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · io -oido (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · ia -oide (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · eo -oido (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · fi -mainen (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · fi -oidi (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · pt -oide (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · el -ειδείς (-eideís) (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · es -oide (suffix meaning similar but not the same) · uk -оїд (suffix meaning similar but not the same)