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-oid
- a suffix meaning “resembling,” “like,” used in the formation of adjectives and nouns (and often implying an incomplete or imperfect resemblance to what is indicated by the preceding element):
alkaloid; anthropoid; cardioid; cuboid; lithoid; ovoid; planetoid.
-oid
suffix forming adjectives
- indicating likeness, resemblance, or similarity
anthropoid
–oid
- A suffix meaning “like” or “resembling,” as in ellipsoid, a geometric solid that resembles an ellipse.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -oid1
from Greek -oeidēs resembling, form of, from eidos form
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Example Sentences
Erasistratos de kantautha proteron poisas to deuteron ouk oid' hops ouk aisthanetai.
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Kaitoi taut' ouk oid' hops exnechthn eipein ou proelomenos all' hyp' auts tou logou ts akolouthias anankastheis.
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Thallog′enous, belonging to the thallogens; Thall′oid, Thall′ose, resembling a thallus.
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Varicell′ar, pertaining to varicella; Varicell′oid, resembling varicella.
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Anthropoid, an′throp-oid, adj. in the form of or resembling man.
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