-id

Morpheme

-id

Type

suffix

Denotation

adjectives suffix denoting “belonging to, connected with, member of a group or class”

Etymology

Latin -oides; Ancient Greek -oeidēs, from eidos

Evidence

android, anthropoid, anthropozoid, asteroid, cuboid, cystid, diploid, haploid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, -oid, ovoid, ovuloid, paranoid, plasmoid, spheroid, zoid

See Also

-ode

Homographs

-id, -id, -id