-osis

From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-əʊ.sɪs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /-oʊ.sɪs/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /-əʉ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

-osis (plural -oses)

1. (pathology) functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
2. process, action such as phagocytosis
3. formation, increase such as leukocytosis

Corresponding adjectives are formed using -otic.

• -exia
• -iasis
• -itis
• -otic
• Template:Helminthiases (Infectious · Parasitic disease)

• ISOs, isos, ossi-, sois

Borrowed from English -osis, French -ose, Italian -ose, Portuguese -ose/Spanish -osis, Russian -оз (-oz), all ultimately via Latin from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈosis/, /ˈozis/

1=n

-osis

1. (pathology) forms nouns from nouns, denoting functional disease or condition; -itis

   ‎neuro- (“neuro- (“nerve”)”) + ‎-osis → ‎neurosis (“neurosis”)

   ‎tuberculo (“tubercle”) + ‎-osis → ‎tuberculosis (“tuberculosis”)

   ‎halito (“breath”) + ‎-osis → ‎halitosis (“halitosis”)

• A corresponding adjectival suffix is -otic.

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis). This suffix was already found in Classical Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek (e.g. metamorphōsis, from Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis), itself from μετᾰμορφόω (metamorphóō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)).

-ōsis f (genitive -ōsis); third declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) -osis

   ‎tūberculum (“tubercle”) + ‎-ōsis → ‎tūberculōsis (“tuberculosis”)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• -ōticus (“-otic”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-ōsīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of -ōsus

-osis f (noun-forming suffix, plural -osis)

1. (pathology) -osis

• “-osis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014