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-id English

Meaning -id meaning

What does -id mean?

-id

(not productive except in zoology) of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin.

-id

(chiefly, _, botany) Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources, and the names of certain dynasties, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning "descendant(s) of", e.g. Solomonid, Abbasid. (astronomy) Forming common names of meteors from their apparent constellation of origin. (zoology) Forming common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.