A Dictionary of Prefixes, Suffixes, bining Forms from Webster?s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ? 2002 Webster?s Third New International Dictionary is now online visit for a 14-day free trial .com ative accusative active adjective adverb Anglo-French Albanian alteration anatomy aorist Armenian Avestan biology botany centimeter-gram-second bining form conjunction contraction crystallography Dutch Danish dative dialect diminutive English especially French feminine from frequentative future German genitive geology Greek Germanic Gothic Hittite Indo-European imitative indicative interjectionIrish Gaelic irregularInternational Scientific Vocabulary Italian italic LatinLate Greek literally LithuanianLate Latin masculine Middle DutchMiddle English medicineMiddle FrenchMiddle GreekMiddle High German Middle IrishMedieval Latin modification noun neuterNew Latin nominativenoun plural obsoleteOld EnglishOld FrenchOld FrisianOld High GermanOld IrishOld LatinOld NorseOld PersianOol Proven3alOld Prussian originallyOld SaxonOld ScandinavianOld SlavicOld Welsh participle perhaps person Portuguese plural preposition present probably pronoun Russian Scots singular Sanskrit Spanish specifically superlative SwedishTocharian A Turkish usually variant verbVulgar Latin Welsh Abbreviations in This Work The abbreviations in this list are regularized to one style without periods, although they may appear with periods in context, depending on whether printed in roman type or italics. abl acc act adj adv AF Alb alter anat aor Arm Av biol bot cgs b. form conj contr crystallog D Dan dat dial dim E esp F fem fr freq fut G gen geol Gk Gmc Goth Hitt IE imit indic interj IrGael irreg ISV It ital L LGk lit Lith LL masc MD ME med MF MGk MHG MIr ML modif n neut NL nomn pl obs OE OF OFris OHG OIr OL ON OPer OProv OPruss orig OS OScan OSlav OW part perh pers Pg pl prep pres prob pron Russ Sc sing Skt Sp specif superl Sw Toch A Turk usu var vb VL W ?a- prefix 7ME, fr. OE a-, an,