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"text": "mayor + -ess → mayoress (“mayor’s wife”)",
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"text": "priest + -ess → priestess (“priest’s wife”)",
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{
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"text": "prince + -ess → princess (“prince’s wife (who would become a queen consort)”)",
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
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"sense": "female suffix",
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"feminine"
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"word": "ـَة"
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{
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"sense": "female suffix",
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"-i"
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"word": "-ঈ"
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{
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"roman": "-ini",
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"word": "-ইনী"
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"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "-a",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-আ"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ez"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "ma.",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "မ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǚ-",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "女-"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mǔ-",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "母-"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-inde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-in"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-esse"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-ino"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-tar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-tär"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-esse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-euse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-e"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-esa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-in (-trix f, -öse f)"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Classical Greek",
"roman": "-issa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ῐσσᾰ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Modern Greek",
"roman": "-issa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ισσα"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "-a",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-ה"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "-it",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-ית"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "-nī",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-नी"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-nő"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-ino"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-essa"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-a"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "ban-"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-essa"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-trīx"
},
{
"code": "la",
"english": "borrowed from Greek",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"Late-Latin",
"feminine"
],
"word": "-issa"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-êsse"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "-inne"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "-ske"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "-esse"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-en"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-a"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-esa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-iță"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-easă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ka",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ša",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ша"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ica",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ица"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-nica",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ница"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ísa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-и́са"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-éssa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-е́сса"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-a",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-а"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-čica",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-чица"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-inja",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-иня"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ynja",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ыня"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-íxa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-и́ха"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ʹja",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ья"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-úxa",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-у́ха"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-inna"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-essa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "-ska"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "female suffix",
"word": "ji-"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "female suffix",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-es"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "wife of",
"word": "-né"
}
],
"word": "-ess"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English noun-forming suffixes",
"English suffixes",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-esse"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-itia"
},
"expansion": "Latin -itia",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French -esse, from Latin -itia.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "-ess",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Used to form nouns from adjectives."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-ess"
}
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