ine
This ROOT-WORD is the Suffix INE. It is used in giving names in chemistry (chlorine) and in Botany (columbine). It makes adjectives giving the NATURE OF, feminine& masculine. There are two ways of pronouncing INE: either INE to rhyme with wine or IN to rhyme with win. Be careful!
1. Columbine : columb INE (kol’ um bine) n.
A plant
2. Divine : div INE (di vine’) adj.
Godly; of the nature of God
3. Elephantine : elephant INE (el e fan’ teen) adj.
Of the nature of an elephant; ponderous
4. Feminine : femin INE (fem’ i nin) adj.
Of the nature of a woman
5. Genuine : genu INE (jen’ yu in) adj.
Natural; free from artificiality
6. Masculine : mascul INE (mas’ kyu lin) adj.
Of the nature of a man
7. Medicine : medi INE (med’ i sin) n.
The science and art dealing with cure of disease
8. Pristine : prist INE (pris’ teen) adj.
The first; primary; new
9. Calcine : calc INE (kal sine) v.
Reduce to a powder
10. Routine : rout INE (ru teen’) adj.
According to the regular schedule of work
11. Saccharine : sacchar INE (sak’ a rin) adj.
Of the nature of sugar; as, a saccharine taste
12. Saline : sal INE (say’ leen) adj.
Consisting of salt; as, a saline solution
13. Saturnine : Saturn INE (sat’ ur nine) adj.
Of the nature of the planet Saturn; gloomy; grave melancholy
14. Serpentine : serpent INE (ser; pen teen) adj.
Winding sinuously, like a snake
15. Calcarine : calcar INE (kal; kar in) adj.
Shaped like a spur
16. Chlorine : chlor INE (klore’ een) n.
A greenish yellow gas of a suffocating odor
17. Turbine : turb INE (tur’ bin) n.
A powerful rotary engine
18. Turpentine : turpent INE (tur’ pen tine) n.
A resinous fluid; sap from the terebinth tree
19. Wolverine : wolver INE (wol’ ver een) adj.
Wolfish
20. Supine : sup INE (sue pine’) adj.
Lying on the back; recumbent
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