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-leptic

-leptic suffix: of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic.

Suffix

-leptic

  1. Of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic.
  2. A person who is afflicted with a condition prone to cause violent seizures, as in epileptic.
  3. Describing a coordination compound having some type(s) of ligand.

Origin of -leptic

From Ancient Greek λῆψις (lêpsis, “taking hold, seizing”) + -ic, as in Ancient Greek ληπτικός (lēptikós).

Words formed from -leptic

Questions about -leptic

What does -leptic mean?
-leptic means of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic.
What part of speech is -leptic?
-leptic is a suffix.

Words near -leptic in the dictionary

  1. -le
  2. -lect
  3. -leigh
  4. -lepsy
  5. -lept
  6. -leptic
  7. -les-
  8. -less
  9. -let
  10. -lets
  11. -ley

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