Pronunciations
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/ɪd/
Suffix
Forming the names of dynasts, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning “descendant of”.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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Perseus + -id → Perseid (dynast)
Solomon + -id → Solomonid
More examples (4)
Umayya + -(i)d → Umayyad
Genghis + -id → Genghisid
Osman + -id → Osmanid
[Ismail] Safavi + -(i)d → Safavid
Forming the common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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A felid is a member of Felidae.
Forming the names of cusps or other features of lower (mandibular) teeth.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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protocone (“cusp of upper molars”) + -id → protoconid (“equivalent for lower molars”)
Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources.
Usage- morpheme
Suffix
Forming names of feminine equivalents or of feminine descendants from a masculine name.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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Titan + -id → Titanid, literally “female Titan”
Nereus + -id → Nereid, literally “sprung of Nereus”
More examples (3)
Oceanus + -id → Oceanid, literally “sprung of Oceanus”
Perseus + -id → Perseid, literally “sprung of Perseus” (an epithet of Alcmene, grand-daughter of Perseus)
Danaus + -id → Danaid, literally “sprung of Danaus”
Forming the names of epic poems.
Usage- morpheme
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Aeneas + -id → Aeneid
Achilles + -id → Achilleid
More examples (1)
Perseus + -id → Perseid (epic poem)
Forming common names of meteors from their apparent constellation of origin.
Usage- morpheme
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Perseus + -id → Perseid (meteor)
Gemini + -id → Geminid
Suffix
of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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arachno- + -id → arachnid
falcon + -id → falconid