CLA201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Octopus, Diminutive, Natural Philosophy
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Plural of octopus is not octopi, where octopodes or octopuses is: singular ma, plural mata, singular sis, plural ses, singular on, plural a, singular it is, plural itides, singular x, plural ces (when preceded by a vowel) Diminutive suffixes: normal noun-forming suffixes, every diminutive suffix gives the meaning little (hence the name) Verb-forming suffixes: these suffixes form verbs when they are added to the end of a word, there are two of them, but only one is really greek. Ize: to make, to create, to do something with. Ate (latin origin): to make, to create, to do something with. Yse endings: verbs in yse, brethalyse, catalyse, dialyse, electrolyse, hydrolyse, paralyse, psychoanalyse, these words are spelled with yse in british english but can be spelled yze in canadian. English: these words do not come directly from greek, but were created (mostly in the nineteenth century) on the basis of analyse, which seems to have been a back-formation from analysis.
