-ine
- (suffix added to names of persons, animals, or material things, and to some other words, with the sense "of" or "pertaining to," "of the nature of")
suffix
- (forming names of discrete substances)
suffix
- (noun suffix used particularly in chemical terms, and especially in names of basic substances)
suffix
- (suffix of feminine nouns (heroine), given names (Clementine), and titles (landgravine))
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /-aɪn/ / /-iːn/ / /-ɪn~-ən/
suffix
Etymology: From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.
- used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies
“cardueline, velociraptorine”