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-ido

-ido suffix: attached to the name of a language (typically a constructed language) to denote a conlang derived from or based on that language.

Suffix

-ido

  1. Attached to the name of a language (typically a constructed language) to denote a conlang derived from or based on that language.
    • Volapük + -ido → Volapükido (“conlang derived from Volapük”)
    • Toki Pona + -ido → tokiponido (“conlang derived from Toki Pona”)

Origin of -ido

Back-formation from Esperantido, from Esperanto -ido (“offspring”).

Questions about -ido

What does -ido mean?
-ido means attached to the name of a language (typically a constructed language) to denote a conlang derived from or based on that language.
What part of speech is -ido?
-ido is a suffix.

Words near -ido in the dictionary

  1. -idene
  2. -idian
  3. -idine
  4. -idion
  5. -idium
  6. -ido
  7. -ie
  8. -ied
  9. -ienne
  10. -iennes
  11. -ier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -ido (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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