-oon

American  

1. a suffix occurring in words borrowed from French and other Romance languages (bassoon; balloon; dragoon; pontoon ), and on this model occasionally used in the formation of new nouns in English (spittoon ).

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Etymology

Origin of -oon

As an English formative (e.g., in spittoon ), extracted from words of various origins ( buffoon, lagoon, etc.) but representing chiefly French -on in words stressed on the final syllable; compare Spanish -on, Italian -one, Latin -ōn-

Example Sentences

San Jose State’s Natasha Andrea Oon shot a final-round 70 to finish at 3-under 285.

From Seattle Times

Judge See Kee Oon said that though Murugayan, 40, suffered significant psychiatric problems, the offences she committed were abhorrent and with purpose.

From Reuters

Singapore's High Court has accepted a request to freeze up to $3.5 billion of worldwide assets of Lim Oon Kuin and his two children following the collapse of Lim's oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd, the company's liquidators told creditors in an email reviewed by Reuters.

From Reuters

A Singapore prosecutor filed 23 additional forgery-related charges on Friday against Lim Oon Kuin, the founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd.

From Reuters

Surface samples from an air outlet fan did return a positive result2, but two of the authors — Kalisvar Marimuthu and Oon Tek Ng at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore — told Nature in an e-mail that the outlet was close enough to a person with COVID-19 that it could have been contaminated by respiratory droplets from a cough or sneeze.

From Nature