-e

Morpheme

-e

Type

suffix

Denotation

Ancient Greek verbal noun suffix denoting a process, condition, or result (plural -ae)

Etymology

Ancient Greek -ē

Evidence

adrenarche, apocope, apostrophe, arche-, -arche, archegonium, archegony, archelogy, archesporium, catastrophe, coitarche, diastole, epitome, gonadarche, hyperbole, menarche, parabole, procope, psyche, pubarche, semenarche, spermarche, syncope, systole, thelarche

Notes

syllabic

See Also

-ae

Homographs

E, E, -e-, e-, e-, e-, e-, -e, E, -e, -e, -e, -e, -e, -e, -e