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-ice

-ice suffix: forms abstract nouns.

Suffix

-ice

  1. (idiomatic) Forms abstract nouns.

Origin of -ice

From Anglo-Norman -ice and Old French -ice, from either (1) Latin -īcius (“adjective suffix”), from -īcus + -ius or (2) Latin -itia (“noun suffix denoting condition”).

Words formed from -ice

Questions about -ice

What does -ice mean?
-ice means forms abstract nouns.
What part of speech is -ice?
-ice is a suffix.

Words near -ice in the dictionary

  1. -ica
  2. -ical
  3. -icam
  4. -icase
  5. -ication
  6. -ice
  7. -ichnion
  8. -ician
  9. -icidal
  10. -icide
  11. -icism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ice (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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