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-ia
Origin:
< Neo-Latin, Latin, Greek, equivalent to -i- (formative or connective) or -ī- (Greek -ei-) + -a, feminine singular or neuter plural noun or adj. ending
< Neo-Latin, Latin, Greek, equivalent to -i- (formative or connective) or -ī- (Greek -ei-) + -a, feminine singular or neuter plural noun or adj. ending
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-ia
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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World English Dictionary
| -ia | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | occurring in place names: Albania; Columbia |
| 2. | occurring in names of diseases and pathological disorders: pneumonia; aphasia |
| 3. | occurring in words denoting condition or quality: utopia |
| 4. | occurring in names of botanical genera: acacia; poinsettia |
| 5. | occurring in names of zoological classes: Reptilia |
| 6. | occurring in collective nouns borrowed from Latin: marginalia; memorabilia; regalia |
| [(for senses 1--4) New Latin, from Latin and Greek, suffix of feminine nouns; (for senses 5--6) from Latin, neuter plural suffix] | |
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Word Origin & History
-ia
suffix forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, from L. and Gk. -ia, which forms abstract nouns of fem. gender. In paraphernalia, Mammalia, etc. it represents the L. and Gk. plural suffix of nouns in -ium or -ion.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
-ia 1
suff.
Disease; pathological or abnormal condition: anoxia.
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