0 a word or group of letters that is added to the beginning or end of words to change or add meaning:
1 a word part to which prefixes and word endings or other combining forms can be added to make a word, as "bio-," "-graphy," and "-logy" combine to make "biology" and "biography"
Other extensions to the basic method include an 'into' combining form with many useful applications, and a simple means by which combinator parsers can produce more informative error messages.
In particular, a combining form for handling the 'offside rule' is given.
Ethno- a combining form meaning race, culture, people, used in the formation of compound words: ethnography.
The prefix cyno- comes from the combining form of meaning dog.
Here the suffix appears in the combining form.
Suffixes are categorized as either (1) needing the combining form, or (2) not needing the combining form since they start with a vowel.
Recco only recorded 116; the combining forms for 1116, which did not have this "-ir-", are included as the hyphenated forms in the table above.
The combining forms are used to form the tens, hundreds, thousands, and millions.