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To Prefix or To Suffix That is the Question
Whipping up a Greek and Latin Prefix
The Name of the Game is -ONYM
Penning an l Ode to an -OLOGY
Smoking Hot Pan of -OSOPHY
Right to Bear Arms -FEROUS/-GEROUS
A TABLE SET FOR -ISM BELIEFS
a monstrosity of a list of -ISM words
Knowledge ~ Spirituality ~ Political ~ Science
Moral ~ Humanity ~ Creative Arts ~ Psychology
Causality & Reality ~ Other Beliefs
See Also: -PHILE | -PHOBIA | -MANIA
SIZZLING & SMART
THE RIGHT TO BEAR
-FEROUS & -GEROUS
THE SUFFIX
The suffix -ferous is from the Latin ferre meaning “to bear; to produce, yield, contain, or convey” and the similar suffix -gerous, from Latin -ger bearing (from the root of gerere “ to bear, carry’) + -ous.
This list is composed of dangerous words but dangerous does not carry this suffix. Dangerous is from the Old French dangeros (a close relative of danger), which became dangerous after the Norman Conquest in the sense of arrogant or overbearing.
ARMIGEROUS - entitled to bear arms
BELLIFEROUS - bringing war
CRUCIFEROUS - bearing a cross
DENTIGEROUS - bearing teeth
DOLORIFEROUS - bearing grief or pain
ESTIFEROUS - producing heat
FLAGELLIFEROUS - bearing a whip or flagellum
FLAMMIFEROUS - producing flame
IGNIFEROUS - bearing fire
LETHIFEROUS - bearing death
MALIFEROUS - harmful; unhealthy
MASTIGOPHOROUS - bearing a whip
MORBIFEROUS - disease-bringing
MORTIFEROUS - death-bringing; fatal
OMNIFEROUS - bearing everything
PESTIFEROUS - bringing plague or pestilence
PLUMIGEROUS - plumaged
SANGUIFEROUS - bearing blood
SECURIGEROUS - bearing an axe
SERPENTIFEROUS - bearing a snake
SPICIGEROUS - bearing spikes
STIGMATIFEROUS - bearing stigma
TEDIFEROUS - bearing a torch
TOXIFEROUS - producing or bearing poison
VENENIFEROUS -carrying poison
VIRULIFEROUS -bearing or containing a virus
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The suffix -ferous is from the Latin ferre meaning “to bear; to produce, yield, contain, or convey” and the similar suffix -gerous, from Latin -ger bearing (from the root of gerere “ to bear, carry’) + -ous.
This list is composed of dangerous words but dangerous does not carry this suffix. Dangerous is from the Old French dangeros (a close relative of danger), which became dangerous after the Norman Conquest in the sense of arrogant or overbearing.
ARMIGEROUS - entitled to bear arms
BELLIFEROUS - bringing war
CRUCIFEROUS - bearing a cross
DENTIGEROUS - bearing teeth
DOLORIFEROUS - bearing grief or pain
ESTIFEROUS - producing heat
FLAGELLIFEROUS - bearing a whip or flagellum
FLAMMIFEROUS - producing flame
IGNIFEROUS - bearing fire
LETHIFEROUS - bearing death
MALIFEROUS - harmful; unhealthy
MASTIGOPHOROUS - bearing a whip
MORBIFEROUS - disease-bringing
MORTIFEROUS - death-bringing; fatal
OMNIFEROUS - bearing everything
PESTIFEROUS - bringing plague or pestilence
PLUMIGEROUS - plumaged
SANGUIFEROUS - bearing blood
SECURIGEROUS - bearing an axe
SERPENTIFEROUS - bearing a snake
SPICIGEROUS - bearing spikes
STIGMATIFEROUS - bearing stigma
TEDIFEROUS - bearing a torch
TOXIFEROUS - producing or bearing poison
VENENIFEROUS -carrying poison
VIRULIFEROUS -bearing or containing a virus
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