-oid
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-oid
- Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
- (less commonly) Of, pertaining to, or related to.
- Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people, by means of analogy to psychological classifications such as schizoid.
Usage notes
[edit]- “-oid” may be suffixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives.
Synonyms
[edit]- (resembling): quasi-, para-, -form/-iform, -esque, -ish, -ly, -some, -y, (restricted to casual registers) -ass, (forms adjectives from nouns only) -like
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]suffix meaning similar but not the same
|
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -οειδής (-oeidḗs), from εἶδος (eîdos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-oid
- -oid (adjective or substantive)
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of nouns in -oid often is the same as the one from the basic word: Asteroid is masculine like ἀστήρ (astḗr) and also like Stern, Metalloid is neuter like metallum and Metall. However, Ellipsoid is neuter while ellipsis and Ellipse are feminine, yet Ellipsoide is feminine too.
- Common declensions of substantives are:
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- adjectives: adenoid, albuminoid, amöboid, amygdaloid, amyloid, anthropoid, arachnoid, australoid, brakteoid, bulboid, diphtheroid, ellipsoid, epileptoid, grippoid, histioid & histoid, humanoid, hyaloid, hypnoid, hysteroid, indigoid, kretinoid, lichenoid, lipoid, lymphoid, mastoid, mongoloid, negroid, organoid, osteoid, ovoid, petaloid, pithekoid, polypoid, präfixoid, rheumatoid, rhizoid, rhomboid, sarkoid, schimpansoid, schizoid, suffixoid, systemoid, tigroid, zykloid
- masculine substantives: Android, Anthropoid, Asteroid, Humanoid, Meteoroid, Parasitoid, Planetoid, Rhomboid
- masculine or neuter substantives: Porphyroid
- neuter substantives: Affixoid, Albuminoid, Alkaloid, Amyloid, Bakterioid, Dermoid, Desmoid, Digitaloid, Ekzematoid, Ellipsoid, Eutektoid, Feldspatoid, Flavonoid, Globoid, Gruppoid, Haloid, Hyperboloid, Karotinoid (Carotinoid), Kankroid, Karzinoid, Keloid, Kolloid, Konoid, Kristalloid, Lanthanoid, Lipoid, Metalloid, Nukleoid, Opioid, Organoid, Paraboloid, Phelloid, Platinoid, Präfixoid, Prismatoid & Prismoid, Psychoid, Pyrenoid, Pyrethroid, Resinoid, Rheumatoid, Rhizoid, Rhomboid, Sigmoid, Solenoid, Sphäroid, Sphenoid, Suffixoid, Syphiloid, Systemoid, Toxoid, Trapezoid, Typhoid, Viroid, Zebroid, Zelluloid (Celluloid)
- adjectives suffixed with -oid or -id: myeloid, paranoid, schizoid
- neuter substantives with -oid or -id: Dermoid, Desmoid, Haloid, Pinakoid, Steroid
- adjectives suffixed with -id: australid, europid, mongolid, negrid
- neuter substantives suffixed with -id: Amid, Geoid, Halogenid, Ureid
See also:
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-oid m
Declension
[edit]Declension of -oid
or
Declension of -oid
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- -oid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English adjective-forming suffixes
- English noun-forming suffixes
- English productive suffixes
- German terms borrowed from Latin
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms derived from Ancient Greek
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German suffixes
- German adjective-forming suffixes
- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔit
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔit/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish suffixes
- Polish masculine suffixes