-ize

DEFINITION of -ize

forms verbs: (to) make, (to) become, (to) cause to be, (to) subject to, (to) engage in see also: fac-

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ETYMOLOGY of -ize

greek

Component	Origin	Meaning
-ize	Greek -ίζω (-izō), infinitive -ίζειν (-izein)	Verb-forming suffix — “to make,” “to become,” “to cause to be,” “to subject to,” “to engage in”

The suffix entered English in the 1530s as authorize and civilize (verb), borrowed from French -iser, from Latin -izare, from Greek -ίζειν (-izein) — literally “to make” or “to cause to be.” The suffix is extremely productive in English, with hundreds of medical and technical compounds coined in the 1700s–1900s. The root -izō (“to make, to cause”) connects -ize to the entire verb-forming suffixes: immobilize (immobil- + -ize $\to$ to make immobile/fixed in place), stabilize (stabil- + -ize $\to$ to make stable/firm), and mobilize (mobil- + -ize $\to$ to make mobile/capable of movement). The verb-forming suffix -ize is one of the most productive suffixes in English medical and clinical terminology: e.g., immobilize, stabilize, mobilize, immobilize, and stabilize.

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DERIVATIONS of -ize

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