Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- suffix Disease; pathological or abnormal condition: anoxia.
- suffix Territory; country: Australia.
- suffix Things derived from, relating to, or belonging to: personalia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- suffix Used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, and rarely collections of things (such as militaria, deletia).
- suffix Used in forming plurals of nouns in -ium and -ion.
Etymologies
New Latin, from Latin -ia and Greek -iā, n. suff.
Latin, neuter pl. of -ius, Greek, neuter pl. of -ios, n. and adj. suffixes.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ία, -εια (-ia), which form abstract nouns of feminine gender. (Wiktionary)
From the endings of corresponding Latin and Ancient Greek plural nouns. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The ending -ia would indicate Ya, short for YHWH or Yaweh, the other biblical name for God, generally translated "Lord."
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The name tags had been specially prepared: a blank space for your name on the first line, the printed words A Person With on the second, and on the bottom line you were supposed to print the name of your phobia, using the -ia suffix, not the -ic.
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