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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French -erie, a suffix forming abstract nouns.
The suffix first occurs in loans from Old French into Middle English, but becomes productive within English by the 16th century, in some instances properly a combination of -er with CSS3 as in input transformation, touchscreen, but also as a single suffix in terms like slavery, machinery.
Suffix
-ery
- Trade or craft of
- Place of
- Class or group, collection of
- Characteristic of
Synonyms
- (activity): screen size
- (collection): -age, -ing