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-cele

-cele suffix: a tumour. Also the alternative form of -coel.

Suffix

-cele (noun-forming suffix, plural -celes)

  1. A tumour.
    Synonyms:
    -oma
  2. A hernia.

Also used as

-cele is also the alternative form of -coel.

Synonyms of -cele

Forms of -cele

plural-celes
alternative form-coele
alternative possibly (nonstandard)-coel

Origin of -cele

Derived from Ancient Greek κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour, hernia”).

See -coel.

Questions about -cele

What does -cele mean?
-cele means a tumour.
What part of speech is -cele?
-cele is a suffix.

Words near -cele in the dictionary

  1. -cavir
  2. -cc
  3. -ccino
  4. -ce
  5. -cel
  6. -cele
  7. -celes
  8. -cels
  9. -cene
  10. -centesis
  11. -centric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -cele (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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