-osis

See also: osis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-əʊ.sɪs/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /-oʊ.sɪs/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /-əʉ.sɪs/
Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Suffix

-osis (noun-forming suffix, plural oses)

(pathology) functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
process, action such as phagocytosis
formation, increase such as leukocytosis

Usage notes

Corresponding adjectives are formed using -otic.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -osis

glycosphingolipidosis

gnathostomiasis

gomphosis

gonderiosis

Translations

suffix for functional disorders

Catalan: -osi (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 症 (zh) (zhèng)
Czech: -óza f
Dutch: -ose (nl)
Esperanto: -ozo
Finnish: -oosi
French: -ose (fr)
Galician: -ose (gl) f
German: -ose (de)
Hungarian: -ózis
Interlingua: -osis
Irish: -óis f
Japanese: 症 (ja) (shō)
Latin: -ōsis f (New Latin)
Occitan: -osi f
Polish: -oza (pl) f
Portuguese: -ose (pt) f
Russian: -оз (ru) m (-oz)
Spanish: -osis (es) f

References

^ “-osis, noun suffix”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
^ (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], 29 November 2018 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 February 2014

Anagrams

ISOs, isos, ossi-, sois

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English -osis, French -ose, Italian -ose, Portuguese -ose/Spanish -osis, Russian -оз (-oz), all ultimately via Latin from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈosis/, /ˈozis/

Suffix

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-osis

(pathology) forms nouns from nouns, denoting functional disease or condition; -itis
‎neuro- (“neuro- (“nerve”)”) + ‎-osis → ‎neurosis (“neurosis”)

‎tuberculo (“tubercle”) + ‎-osis → ‎tuberculosis (“tuberculosis”)

‎halito (“breath”) + ‎-osis → ‎halitosis (“halitosis”)

Usage notes

A corresponding adjectival suffix is -otic.

Derived terms

Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -osis not found

References

Alexander Gode; Hugh E. Blair (1955), Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis). This suffix was already found in Classical Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek (e.g. metamorphōsis, from Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis), itself from μετᾰμορφόω (metămorphóō) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs)).

Suffix

-ōsis f (genitive -ōsis or -ōseōs or -ōsios); third declension

(New Latin, pathology) -osis
‎tūberculum (“tubercle”) + ‎-ōsis → ‎tūberculōsis (“tuberculosis”)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	-ōsis	-ōsēs -ōseis
genitive	-ōsis -ōseōs -ōsios	-ōsium
dative	-ōsī	-ōsibus
accusative	-ōsim -ōsin -ōsem¹	-ōsēs -ōsīs
ablative	-ōsī -ōse¹	-ōsibus
vocative	-ōsis -ōsi	-ōsēs -ōseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -osis

tuberculosis

Related terms

-ōticus (“-otic”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-ōsīs

dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of -ōsus

Spanish

Suffix

-osis f (noun-forming suffix, plural -osis)

(pathology) -osis

Derived terms

Welsh

Suffix

-osis f

(especially pathology) -osis

Derived terms

Welsh terms suffixed with -osis

asidosis

ffagocytosis

heterosis

[1] “-osis, noun suffix”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

[2] (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], 29 November 2018 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 February 2014

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Interlingua

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Latin

Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

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Spanish

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Further reading

Welsh

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