Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one
to whom an actis done oron whom a rightis conferred ; as in assignee , donee , alienee , grantee , etc. It is correlative to-or , the agent or doer.
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- suffix Used to form diminutives.
- suffix Added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the
object of thatverb (ie, to whom or to which an action is done). - suffix Less commonly added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the
subject of thatverb (ie, who or that does an action), especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied. - suffix law Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or
- suffix medicine Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical
procedure - suffix Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun.
Etymologies
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Perhaps a variation on -ie and -y
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Anglo-Norman and Old French -ee, French -é, -ée, endings forming feminine past participle of verbs ending in -er.
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