-ery
/əɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.28 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
Countable; Uncountable
suffix
Added to verbs to form nouns meaning "place of" (an art, craft, or practice).
Countable; Uncountable
suffix
Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
Countable; Uncountable
suffix
Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "behavior characteristic of."
Countable; Uncountable
suffix
Example Sentences
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery From Middle English -erie, from Anglo-Norman -erie, which is from -ier + -ie; a suffix forming abstract nouns. The suffix first occurs in loans from Old French into Middle English, but becomes productive within English by the 16th century, in some instances properly a combination of the agent suffix -er with -y as in bakery, brewery, but also as a single suffix in terms like slavery, machinery (which are not derived from slaver or machiner). By surface analysis, -er + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
-eries (plural)
-erie (alternative)
-ry (alternative)
more -ery (comparative)
most -ery (superlative)