-ade
-ade
11.
2.
a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit, normally a citrus: lemonade.
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-ade
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| -ade | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| a sweetened drink made of various fruits: lemonade; limeade | |
| [from French, from Latin -āta made of, feminine past participle of verbs ending in -āre] | |
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Word Origin & History
-ade
suffix denoting an action or product of an action, from L. -ata (Fr. -ade, Sp. -ada, It. -ata), fem. pp. ending used in forming nouns. A living prefix in Fr., from which many words have come into Eng. (e.g. lemonade). Latin -atus, pp. suffix of verbs of the 1st conjugation also became -ade in Fr. (Sp.
-ado, It. -ato) and came to be used as a suffix denoting persons or groups participating in an action (e.g. brigade).
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