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-grave

-grave suffix: used to signify a local ruler or administrator.

Suffix

-grave

  1. (historical) Used to signify a local ruler or administrator.

Origin of -grave

From Old Saxon grēve, typically used in translations of feudal German titles ending in German Graf (“count”), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō.

Questions about -grave

What does -grave mean?
-grave means used to signify a local ruler or administrator.
What part of speech is -grave?
-grave is a suffix.

Words near -grave in the dictionary

  1. -graphia
  2. -graphic
  3. -graphical
  4. -graphs
  5. -graphy
  6. -grave
  7. -grel
  8. -grel-
  9. -guessr
  10. -gynous
  11. -gyny

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -grave (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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