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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-elle - a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from French, where it originally formed diminutives, now often with a derivative sense in which the diminutive force is lost (bagatelle;
prunelle; rondelle); also in Anglicized forms of Latin words ending in -ella (organelle).
- Latin -ella, feminine of -ellus, forming diminutives corresponding to stems ending in -ul- -ule, -r- (see castellum), -n- (see patella)
- French
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