-ide

Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.

Suffix morpheme

  1. Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.
  2. A binary compound - bromide, arsenide, palladide.
  3. Any of a group of several elements - lanthanide.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide Generalized in the early 19th c. from oxide (which has its ending from French acide, itself from Latin -idus in acidus), and gradually displaced earlier -uret, both introduced in the English translation of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique.

Suffix alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic form of -id.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French -ide m, from Latin -idēs.

Suffix alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic form of -id.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French -ide f, from Latin -is.