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Dogs are canine, cats are feline, cows are bovine. What's with all the -ines?
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| April 18, 2004
| anonymous
Posted on 04/18/2004 8:50:30 AM PDT by redhead
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To: redhead
Mooses - Alcine
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04/18/2004 9:46:53 AM PDT
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Redcloak
(Have you hugged your tagline today?)
To: redhead
Rantissi is supine.
To: HighWheeler
forgot the photo
Rantisi is supine.
To: redhead
The suffix
-ine means
having the nature of and is synonymous with the suffix
-like.
The suffix -ine is generally applied to the Latin root, while the suffix -like is generally added to the English root.
So, for instance, lupine means wolflike; Divine means Godlike; and assinine means donkeylike.
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04/18/2004 2:22:01 PM PDT
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TaxRelief
(Yep. We're sitting in traffic so they can fund the Public Transportation Utopia...)
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