(Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; pertaining to, like; connected with, belonging to, resembling)

(Latin: often through French, quality or state of; being; condition; act or fact of _______ ing; a suffix that forms nouns)

(Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; action, process, state, quality, or condition of)

(Greek > Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of)

(Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; meaning, quality of, state of)

(Latin: action, result of an action or condition; a suffix that forms nouns)

(Latin: beginning to be, becoming; to be somewhat; a suffix that forms nouns and adjectives)

(Greek -issa > Late Latin -issa > Old French -esse > Middle English -esse: a suffix that forms nouns meaning a female +++, as in lioness, tigress, heiress, hostess, and sculptress)

(Greek: a suffix that forms nouns and is usually used to form names of arts and sciences)