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-ferous

  1. a combining form meaning “bearing,” “producing,” “yielding,” “containing,” “conveying,” used in the formation of compound words:

    coniferous; pestiferous.



-ferous

combining form

  1. bearing or producing Compare -gerous

    crystalliferous

    coniferous

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ferous1

Middle English; -fer, -ous
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ferous1

from -fer + -ous
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Example Sentences

Words having the following terminations are usually accented on the antepenult, or third syllable from the end: cracy, ferous, fluent, flous, honal, gony, grapher, graphy, loger, logist, logy, loquy, machy, mathy, meter, metry, nomy, nomy, parous, pathy, phony, scopy, strophe, tomy, trophy, vomous, vorous.

NOTE.—This suffix is used only in words of French-Latin origen. -ferous = producing coni-ferous producing cones. -fic = making, causing sopori-fic causing sleep. -fice = something done or made arti-fice something done with art. -fy = to make forti-fy to make strong. -ic -ical n. one who = adj. like, made of, relating to rust-ic   hero-ic metall-ic histor-ical one who has countrified manners. like a hero. made of metal. relating to history.

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