-osis

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /-əʊ.sɪs/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /-oʊ.sɪs/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /-əʉ.sɪs/ Rhymes: -əʊsɪs === Suffix === -osis (noun-forming suffix, plural oses) (pathology) functional disease or condition such as hepatosis process, action such as phagocytosis formation, increase such as leukocytosis ==== Usage notes ==== Corresponding adjectives are formed using -otic. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== -exia -iasis -itis -otic Template:Helminthiases (Infectious · Parasitic disease) === References === === Anagrams === ISOs, isos, ossi-, sois == Interlingua == === Etymology === Borrowed from English -osis, French -ose, Italian -ose, Portuguese -ose/Spanish -osis, Russian -оз (-oz), all ultimately via Latin from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈosis/, /ˈozis/ === Suffix === -osis (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”) ==== Usage notes ==== A corresponding adjectival suffix is -otic. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Alexander Gode; Hugh E. Blair (1955), Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN == Latin == === Etymology 1 === 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 (metămorphóō) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs)). ==== Suffix ==== -ōsis f (genitive -ōsis or -ōseōs or -ōsios); third declension (New Latin, pathology) -osis ‎tūberculum (“tubercle”) + ‎-ōsis → ‎tūberculōsis (“tuberculosis”) ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== -ōticus (“-otic”) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Suffix ==== -ōsīs dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of -ōsus == Spanish == === Suffix === -osis f (noun-forming suffix, plural -osis) (pathology) -osis ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “-osis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Welsh == === Suffix === -osis f (especially pathology) -osis ==== Derived terms ====