-OSIS Definition & Meaning

-osis

a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states ( hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis ), especially disorders or abnormal states ( chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis ).

-osis

suffix forming nouns

indicating a process or state
metamorphosis
indicating a diseased condition Compare -iasis
tuberculosis
indicating the formation or development of something
fibrosis

–o��

A suffix that means:
Diseased condition, as in tuberculosis.
Condition or process, as in osmosis.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of -osis¹

On the model of Greek borrowings ending in Greek -ō��, as ��ŧ��ō�� sclerosis, derived originally from verbs ending in the formative -o- ( -ō- in noun derivatives), with the suffix -sis -sis

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of -osis¹

from Greek, suffix used to form nouns from verbs with infinitives in -oein or -oun

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