-ine

• (depending on the word taking the suffix) IPA^(key): /-aɪn/, /-iːn/, /-ɪn~-ən/

From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.

-ine

1. (chiefly no longer productive) Of or pertaining to.

   asinine, marine, bovine, cervine

2. Used to form demonyms.

   Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine

4. (chemistry) Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.

   amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine

6. (anthropology) used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera

   australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine

7. Commercial materials.

   ‎glass + ‎-ine → ‎glassine

While multiple pronunciations are given above for this suffix, they are not freely interchangeable; instead, each word taking the suffix often only takes one or two of the suffix's possible pronunciations. For example, feminine is almost always pronounced with /-ɪn/, while marine is almost always pronounced with /-iːn/. However, more technical terms (such as iodine, which can take any of the suffix's three possible pronunciations) may not have an established pronunciation, though in feminine names (Maxine) and chemical use (theobromine), the pronunciation /-iːn/ is the most frequent, while in other technical formations (bovine) /-aɪn/ is common.

• -in

From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus.^[1]

-ine

1. (no longer productive) Used to form feminine nouns.

   Synonyms: -a, -ess, -ette, -ina, -ress, she-, -trix

   Antonym: he-

   ‎hero + ‎-ine → ‎heroine

   ‎speaker + ‎-ine → ‎speakerine

   ‎Paul + ‎-ine → ‎Pauline

2. (no longer productive) Used to form female given names or names of titles.

   ‎Clement + ‎-ine → ‎Clementine

   ‎landgrave + ‎-ine → ‎landgravine

Variant of -en.

-ine

1. Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.

   ‎cow + ‎-ine → ‎kine

   ‎sow + ‎-ine → ‎swine

From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.

-ine

2. (zoology) used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies

   cardueline, velociraptorine

• “-ine”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “-ine”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• -ein, EIN, NEI, NIE, Nie

From the same source as -ne (noun-forming suffix) (seen in murene, etc.), with contamination from -in (instrumental suffix) in both form and meaning.

• IPA^(key): /-ineˣ/, [-ine̞(ʔ)]

-ine

1. Forms diminutive forms of nouns, particularly for objects or tools.

• ein, ien

From -in m +‎ -e f.

• IPA^(key): /in/

-ine f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ines)

1. -ine; forms chemical substances

   ‎café m (“coffee”) + ‎-ine → ‎caféine f (“caffeine”)

2. forms diminutives

   ‎escalope f (“escalope (cut of meat)”) + ‎-ine → ‎escalopine f (“small escalope”)

   ‎feutre m (“felt (material)”) + ‎-ine → ‎feutrine f (“lightweight felt”)

3. female equivalent of -in; forms female agent nouns

   ‎pèler(in) m (“pilgrim”) + ‎-ine → ‎pèlerine f (“female pilgrim”)

   ‎assass(in) m (“assassin”) + ‎-ine → ‎assassine f (“female assassin”)

• “-ine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

-ine

1. (nonstandard) Used to form feminine nouns.

   ‎Azubi + ‎-ine → ‎Azubine

   ‎Dackel (“dachshund”) + ‎-ine → ‎Dackeline

-ine f

1. genitive of -in

-ine f pl

1. plural of -ina

• nei

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.ne]

-īne

1. vocative masculine singular of -īnus and -īnos

• IPA^(key): (-ine) [ɪnʲɛ], (-inè) [ɪˈnʲɛ]

Note that a preceding consonant will be palatalised.

-ine

1. instrumental singular feminine of -inis (“of + noun”)

-inè

1. instrumental singular feminine of -i̇̀nis (“of + noun”)

From Proto-Finnic *-inën. Cognates include Ingrian -in and Finnish -nen.

• IPA^(key): /-inʲe/

-ine

1. Used to form diminutive nouns; -ie

This suffix needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *-hšin (“painfully”).

-ine (verb-forming suffix, VAI (animate-subject intransitive))

1. To ache.
2. To have a disease or illness.