Fun With Suffixes

Some English suffixes that I haven't thought about in a while.

-agogue : has to do with leadership or leading. Hence pedagogue, teacher. Or Aragog, the leader of the spiders in Harry Potter.

-mancy : some form of magic or divination. Necromancy, aquamancy, technomancy, amoramancy, cenamancy. Now I'm just making them up.

-rrhea : flowing. Logorrhea, rhinorrhea, gonorrhea, leukorrhea, amongst other flows. Carries a negative connotation.

-blast : an immature cell or tissue. Osteoblast, cnidoblast, neuroblast, xenoblast, Scottoblast. Just remember this basic rule: If you're having a blast, you're probably immature.

-drome : racecourse, field, or some sort of running activity. Aerodrome, hippodrome (not Hungry Hungry Hippos), velodrome, and even palindrome.

-oid : like, but not the same. Trapezoid, android, asteroid, humanoid, steroid. Thankfully unrelated to hemorrhoid.

-phore : bearer or carrier. Electrophoresis, semaphore, phosphorescent, euphoria.

-th : outside of numbering and archaic verb forms, forms nouns from adjectives and verbs. Growth (grow), death (die), filth (foul; gets redone as adjective filthy), strength (strong), dearth (dear, though the sense has migrated).