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-ory
-orysuff.1. Of, relating to, or characterized by: advisory.2. A place or thing used for or connected with: crematory. [Middle English -orie, from Old North French and Anglo-Norman, from Latin -ōrius, adj. suff., and -ōrium, n. suff.]-ory suffix forming nouns 1. indicating a place for: observatory. 2. something having a specified use: directory. [via Old French -orie, from Latin -ōrium, -ōria]
-ory suffix forming adjectives of or relating to; characterized by; having the effect of: contributory; promissory. [via Old French -orie, from Latin -ōrius]-ory1, an adjective-forming suffix, joined to bases of Latin origin in imitation of borrowed Latin words containing the suffix -tory1 (and its alternant -sory): excretory; sensory; statutory.[Middle English -orie < Anglo-French; Old French -oire < Latin -ōrius, extracted from -tōrius -tory1; see -or2] -ory2, a suffix forming nouns denoting places or receptacles, joined to bases of Latin origin in imitation of borrowed Latin words containing the suffix -tory2 (and its alternant -sory): crematory.[Middle English -orie < Anglo-French; Old French -oire < Latin -ōrium, extracted from -tōrium -tory2; see -ory1, -or2]-ory
-ory [Fr. -oire, fr. L. -orius, adj. suffix] Suffix meaning pertaining to, or relating to. |