-ine

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 200 words | Copyright

-ine5 suffix of chem. terms, in origin a variation of -INE4, in such names as gelatine (now superseded by gelatin exc. in pop. use), and those of the four elements bromine, chlorine, fluorine, iodine.

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