-oid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -ο-ειδής (-o-eidḗs) (the ο being the last vowel of the stem to which the suffix is attached); from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
The sense for derogatorily naming groups of people comes from a (originally satirical) reapplication from the usage of the suffix in phrenological and early anthropological terminology (e.g., Mongoloid, Caucasoid, etc.). While often viewed as offensive today, these ethnic terms were not meant to be derogatory inside these fields themselves, but were rather reapplications of the usage found in other scientific settings.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: -oid
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /-ɔɪ̯d/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /-oɪ̯d/
- (India) IPA(key): /-ɔ(ː)jɖ/
- Hyphenation: -oid
Suffix
[edit]-oid
- Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
- (less commonly) Of, pertaining to, or related to.
- Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.
- (category theory) Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.
- group + -oid → groupoid
- ring + -oid → ringoid
- Lie algebra + -oid → Lie algebroid
- monoid + -oid → monoidoid
Usage notes
[edit]- “-oid” may be suffixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives.
Synonyms
[edit]- (resembling): quasi-, para-, -form/-iform, -esque, -ish, -ly, -some, -y, (restricted to casual registers) -ass, (forms adjectives from nouns only) -like
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]suffix meaning similar but not the same
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Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -οειδής (-oeidḗs), from εἶδος (eîdos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-oid
- -oid (adjective or substantive)
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of nouns in -oid often is the same as the one from the basic word: Asteroid is masculine like ἀστήρ (astḗr) and also like Stern, Metalloid is neuter like metallum and Metall. However, Ellipsoid is neuter while ellipsis and Ellipse are feminine, yet Ellipsoide is feminine too.
- Common declensions of substantives are:
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]adjectives
- adenoid
- albuminoid
- amöboid
- amygdaloid
- amyloid
- anthropoid
- arachnoid
- australoid
- brakteoid
- bulboid
- diphtheroid
- ellipsoid
- epileptoid
- grippoid
- histioid, histoid
- humanoid
- hyaloid
- hypnoid
- hysteroid
- indigoid
- kretinoid
- lichenoid
- lipoid
- lymphoid
- mastoid
- mongoloid
- negroid
- organoid
- osteoid
- ovoid
- petaloid
- pithekoid
- polypoid
- präfixoid
- rheumatoid
- rhizoid
- rhomboid
- sarkoid
- schimpansoid
- schizoid
- suffixoid
- systemoid
- tigroid
- zykloid
masculine substantives
neuter substantives
- Affixoid
- Albuminoid
- Alkaloid
- Amyloid
- Bakterioid
- Dermoid
- Desmoid
- Digitaloid
- Ekzematoid
- Ellipsoid
- Eutektoid
- Feldspatoid
- Flavonoid
- Globoid
- Gruppoid
- Haloid
- Hyperboloid
- Kankroid
- Karotinoid ~ Carotinoid
- Karzinoid
- Keloid
- Kolloid
- Konoid
- Kristalloid
- Lanthanoid
- Lipoid
- Metalloid
- Nukleoid
- Opioid
- Organoid
- Paraboloid
- Phelloid
- Platinoid
- Präfixoid
- Prismatoid, Prismoid
- Psychoid
- Pyrenoid
- Pyrethroid
- Resinoid
- Rheumatoid
- Rhizoid
- Rhomboid
- Sigmoid
- Solenoid
- Sphäroid
- Sphenoid
- Suffixoid
- Syphiloid
- Systemoid
- Toxoid
- Trapezoid
- Typhoid
- Viroid
- Zebroid
- Zelluloid ~ Celluloid
See also:
Further reading
[edit]Polish
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[edit]Etymology tree
Derived from Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-oid m
Declension
[edit]Declension of -oid
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Declension of -oid
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
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- en:Category theory
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- German terms derived from Latin
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- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔit
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔit/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- Polish masculine suffixes
