-mate

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate"

English

Etymology

From the noun mate (“fellow, comrade, partner”).

Suffix

-mate

1. Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared".

   classmate, schoolmate

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -mate

Further reading

• “-mate”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.