nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement mit der Bedeutung „ähnlich seiend“, „die Form von etwas habend“, „gemeinsame Merkmale aufweisend“, das Adjektive bildet
diminutive suffix most commonly found in words loaned from Italian; -ette; -let; -et · consisting of N elements; the stem is usually an ordinal adapted from Italian, a Latinate prefix or, less commonly, a cardinal; -et · -ide (binary compound of a nonmetal)
köken: Borrowed from Italian -etto, from Late Latin -ittus. Doublet of -ito, -ete, and -eta.
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine suffix), to be more congruous with other inflections of the suffix, e.g. -ῐδες (-ĭdes, plural). Many words which utilize this suffix in modern Greek are inheritances from older forms of Greek, though not exclusively.
Used in systematic names for many chemical compounds, including compounds containing only two elements · Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.