Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
ice . - noun A vulgar colloquialism in Scotland and the northern part of England for I shall.
- noun A vulgar contraction for
I is , as used for I am, by negroes and others in the southern United States. - noun A termination of some verbs of French origin, equivalent to and of the same origin as -ish, as in advertise, divertise, franchise, enfranchise, etc. It merges with -ise, equivalent to -ize.
- noun A termination of French origin, as in
merchandise: also spelled -ice, as incowardice , and formerly -ize, as inhazardize , etc. - noun A termination of verbs, more usually spelled -ize (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
-ize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- suffix Used to form
verbs fromnouns oradjectives , the verbs having the sense of “to make what is denoted by the noun or adjective”. - suffix Forming abstract nouns of
quality orfunction .
Etymologies
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From French -iser, from Latin -izāre, from Ancient Greek -ιζειν (-izein). See also: the usage notes.
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From Old French -ise, from Latin ītia.
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