Definitions

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  • suffix Used in forming plurals of nouns in -ium and -ion.
  • suffix Used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, and rarely collections of things (such as militaria, deletia).

Etymologies

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From the endings of corresponding Latin and Ancient Greek plural nouns.

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From Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ία, -εια (-ia), which form abstract nouns of feminine gender.

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Examples

  • The ending -ia would indicate Ya, short for YHWH or Yaweh, the other biblical name for God, generally translated "Lord."

    Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011

  • The ending -ia would indicate Ya, short for YHWH or Yaweh, the other biblical name for God, generally translated "Lord."

    Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011

  • The name tags had been specially prepared: a blank space for your name on the first line, the printed words A Person With on the second, and on the bottom line you were supposed to print the name of your phobia, using the -ia suffix, not the -ic.

    Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003

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