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-e

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humorous/-i/

-e suffix: used for archaizing.

Suffix

-e

  1. Used for archaizing.
    • YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet.1993, “10-13. Kenosha”, in Wisconsin Annual Events, page 38
    • Ye Olde Webbe page / Whither thou goest, there thou be.1996, Jon Orwant, Perl 5 Interactive Course, →ISBN, page 679

Origin of -e

From archaic forms ending in e, from Middle English -e, from the coalescence of multiple various endings from Old English.

Words formed from -e

Questions about -e

What does -e mean?
-e means used for archaizing.
What part of speech is -e?
-e is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -e?
-e is pronounced /-i/ (humorous).

Words near -e in the dictionary

  1. -duct
  2. -dutant
  3. -dyl
  4. -dyne
  5. -dynia
  6. -e
  7. -e-
  8. -eal
  9. -ean
  10. -ecious
  11. -ectasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -e (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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