-oid
- resembling : having the form or appearance of
suffix
- something resembling a (specified) object or having a (specified) qualit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /-ɔɪd/ / /-oɪd/
suffix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -ο-ειδής (-o-eidḗs) (the ο being the last vowel of the stem to which the suffix is attached); from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
- Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
“human + -oid → humanoid”
“sterol + -oid → steroid”
- Of, pertaining to, or related to.
“lympho- + -oid → lymphoid”
“myelo- + -oid → myeloid”
- Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.
“waste + -oid → wastoid”
“west + -oid → westoid”
- Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.
“group + -oid → groupoid”
“ring + -oid → ringoid”