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  -rel

  a noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force.
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  rel.

  abbreviation

  relating.

-rel

¹ American  

1. a noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force.

   wastrel.

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rel. ² American  

abbreviation

1. relating.

2. relative.

3. relatively.

4. released.

5. religion.

6. religious.

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rel. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. relating

2. relative(ly)

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-rel ² British  

suffix

1. mainly disparaging indicating a person or thing viewed as diminutive, trivial, or worthless

   mongrel

   wastrel

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Etymology

Origin of -rel

Middle English < Old French -erel, -erelle

Example Sentences

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-rel rel.

The forms -rel, as in cockerel, pickerel, and -let, as in streamlet, require a separate consideration.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

See also the chaplain’s account in Terneaux Compans, Recueil de Pieces rel. a la Conquête de Mexique, p.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton

I E neuter base ku what; Dak ta-ku what rel. and int.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

I E ka int. and rel. pronoun; Pawnee ka interrogative; Dak ka interrogative suffix and in compounds; Ger wer; Dak tu-we who int. and rel; Gk po; Min tape who, tapa or tako what.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

Summary in De Thou, ii. 797-800; Jean de Serres, De statu rel. et reip.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

In the same manner the rel. swaȥ may take the genitive: swaȥ man vant dër armen, whatever poor people one found.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright