- -a
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-a1
-a2
a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in Neo-Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute for the feminine ending -e of Greek words: anabaena; cinchona; pachysandra.-a3 -a4[prob. generalized from the -a of MAGNESIA]
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Universalium. 2010.