=-ance=, =-ancy=, =-ence=, =-ency=; distance, constancy, infancy, consistence, resistance, decency, consistency, persistence, conveyance, cadence, chance (a form of cadence). =-ice=, =-ise=; avarice, service, merchandise, justice, exercise. =-ion=, =-tion=, =-sion=, =-som=, =-son=, originally denoted the action of a verb; action, potion, opinion, poison, venison, malison, fusion, reason, tension, lection, ransom, season, position, nation, occasion. =-or=, =-our=; labour, honour, ardour, savour, clamour, amour. =-tude=; servitude, latitude, fortitude, altitude, longitude, magnitude, custom (from _consuetudo_). =-ty=, =-ity=; cruelty, charity, bounty, poverty, fealty, city, vanity. =-ure=; juncture, censure, culture, measure, cincture, picture, inclosure. =-y=, =-cy=, =-ce=; family, copy, memory, story, victory, misery, aristocracy, fancy, grace. 3. _Diminutives_: =-el=, =-le=; damsel, mongrel. =-et=, =-let=; pocket, rivulet. =-ette=; coquette, rosette. =-icle=, =-cule=; article, animalcule. =-ule=; globule, granule. =Adjective Suffixes.= =-able=, =-ible=, =-ble=; culpable, probable, flexible, edible, capable, soluble, feeble, amiable. =-acious= denotes tendency, generally excessive; loquacious, veracious, vivacious, tenacious, voracious. =-al=, =-ar=; comical, regal, legal, general, regular, singular, loyal, royal, equal, secular. =-an=, =-ane=, =-ain=, =-en=, =-on=; human, urban, pagan, humane, mundane, certain, mizzen (from _medius_). Surgeon and sexton have become nouns. =-aneous=, =-ain=, =-aign=, =-eign=, =-ange=; cutaneous, mountain, champaign, foreign, strange. =-ant=, =-ent=; volant, fluent, patent, innocent. =-ary=, =-arian=, =-arious=; stationary, contrary, necessary, gregarious, agrarian. =-ate=, =-ete=, =-eet=, =-ite=, =-ute=, =-te=; fortunate, deliberate, concrete, effete, discreet, erudite, minute, chaste. =-estrial=, =-estrian=; terrestrial, equestrian. =-ic=; civic, classic, barbaric, unique. =-id=; fervid, morbid, acid, tepid. =-ile=, =-il=, =-eel=, =-le=; servile, senile, fragile, civil, frail, genteel, gentle, able. =-ine= denotes belonging to; feminine, divine, feline, lacustrine, canine, equine, saline. =-ive=, inclined to; pensive, massive, captive, plaintive, restive, native, fugitive, active. =-ous=, =-ose=, denote full of; famous, ingenuous, glorious, copious, assiduous, querulous, anxious, verbose, grandiose, jocose, dangerous. =-ory=; illusory, amatory, admonitory. =-und=; jocund, moribund, floribund, rotund. =Verb Suffixes.= =-ate=; advocate, complicate, anticipate, supplicate, eradicate. =-eer=; domineer, career, volunteer. =-esce= denotes the beginning of an action; effervesce, coalesce.