-ance
/(ə)ns/suffix
Forming nouns:
1Denoting a quality or state or an instance of one: allegiance extravagance perseverance
2Denoting an action: appearance utterance
Origin
From French -ance, from Latin -antia, -entia (from present participial stems -ant-, -ent-).
- sessile
- sessile oak
- session
- sessional
- session beer
- session clerk
- session musician
- Sessions, Roger
- sesterce
- sestertius
- sestet
- sestina
- set
- seta
- set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil
- set about
- setaceous
- setal
- set-aside
- set at naught
- setback
- se-tenant
- seter
- set fire to
- set foot on (or in)