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-v-

-v- interfix: used before -ia or -ian, when the base word ends in certain vowels, especially /u/. Also the abbreviation of versus.

Interfix

-v-

  1. Used before -ia or -ian, when the base word ends in certain vowels, especially /u/.
    • Kachruvian, Monrovia, Nehruvian, Peruvian, Bakuvian, Whovian

Also used as

-v- is also the abbreviation of versus.

Origin of -v-

Perhaps a result of the hardening of /-u(w)iən/ (to /-uviən/); compare English Peruvian to French péruvien and Italian peruviano.

Questions about -v-

What does -v- mean?
-v- means used before -ia or -ian, when the base word ends in certain vowels, especially /u/.
What part of speech is -v-?
-v- is an interfix.

Words near -v- in the dictionary

  1. -urgy
  2. -uria
  3. -ussification
  4. -ussy
  5. -uzz
  6. -v-
  7. -vac
  8. -valent
  9. -vaptan
  10. -varin
  11. -vastatin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -v- (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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