köken: From Old French -ance, from Latin -antia and -entia. Compare Spanish -anza, -enza, Italian -anza, -enza, Portuguese -ança, -ença, Romanian -ință. Cognate to French -ence.
an action or process · the result of an action or process · a state or quality
köken: From the Latin suffix -ātiō. This suffix was formed from verbs of the first conjugation (-āre), and is therefore a variety of the more general -tiō (from which Dutch -tie).
-ance (a state) · a particularly excessive or overindulgent state, as in festança and comilança
eş: -ância, -ença, -ência
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -antia Old Galician-Portuguese -ança Portuguese -ança Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -ança, from Latin -antia, from -ius, from Old Latin -ios, from Proto-Italic *-ios, from Proto-Indo-European *-yós. Doublet of -ância. Cognate with Spanish -anza, French -ance and Italian -anza.
Usually added to foreign verbs to form nouns of actions or processes, like English -ation, -tion.
köken: Ultimately from Latin -atio; found only in words borrowed from other languages (compare English -ation, French -ation, Spanish -ación, German -azion, Italian -zione).