Meaning Of The Word -cle

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-cle in American English 1
suffix: a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages

-cle in American English 2
suffix: a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb ( cubicle, receptacle) or a means by w

-cle in British English
suffix forming nouns: indicating smallness

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