-id
-id
1a suffix of nouns that have the general sense “offspring of, descendant of,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek ( Atreid; Nereid ), and productive in English on the Greek model, especially in names of dynasties, with the dynasty's founder as the base noun ( Abbasid; Attalid ), and in names of periodic meteor showers, with the base noun usually denoting the constellation or other celestial object in which the shower appears ( Perseid ).
Origin:
< Latin -id-, stem of -is < Greek: feminine patronymic suffix; or < Latin -idēs < Greek: masculine patronymic suffix
< Latin -id-, stem of -is < Greek: feminine patronymic suffix; or < Latin -idēs < Greek: masculine patronymic suffix
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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-id
2a suffix occurring in English derivatives of modern Latin taxonomic names, especially zoological families and classes; such derivatives are usually nouns denoting a single member of the taxon or adjectives with the sense “pertaining to” the taxon: arachnid; canid.
-id
3variant of -ide: lipid.
-id
4a suffix occurring in descriptive adjectives borrowed from Latin, often corresponding to nouns ending in -or1, : fetid; humid; pallid.
Origin:
< Latin -idus
< Latin -idus
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| -id1 | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating the names of meteor showers that appear to radiate from a specified constellation: Orionids |
| 2. | indicating a particle, body, or structure of a specified kind: energid |
| [from Latin -id-, -is, from Greek, feminine suffix of origin] | |
| -id2 | |
| —suffix forming adjectives, —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating members of a zoological family: cyprinid |
| 2. | indicating members of a dynasty: Seleucid; Fatimid |
| [from New Latin -idae or -ida, from Greek -idēs suffix indicating offspring] | |
| -id3 | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| a variant of -ide | |
| -ide or -id | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | (added to the combining form of the nonmetallic or electronegative elements) indicating a binary compound: sodium chloride |
| 2. | indicating an organic compound derived from another: acetanilide |
| 3. | indicating one of a class of compounds or elements: peptide; lanthanide |
| [from German -id, from French oxide | |
| -id or -id | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| [from German -id, from French oxide | |
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Medical Dictionary
-id suff.
Body; particle: chromatid.
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