-rrhagia
English
Etymology
From Latin -rrhagia, from Ancient Greek -ραγία (-ragía), from the stem of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break, burst”).
Suffix
-rrhagia
- (medicine) Forms nouns indicating excessive discharge or haemorrhage from an organ.
Coordinate terms
- -rrhea (also concerns flow)
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -ραγία (-ragía), from the stem of ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “to break, burst”).
Suffix
-rrhagia f (genitive -rrhagiae); first declension
- Forms abstract nouns from adjectives and possibly other roots.
- haemo (“blood”) → haemorrhagia (“violent loss of blood”)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -rrhagia | -rrhagiae |
| genitive | -rrhagiae | -rrhagiārum |
| dative | -rrhagiae | -rrhagiīs |
| accusative | -rrhagiam | -rrhagiās |
| ablative | -rrhagiā | -rrhagiīs |
| vocative | -rrhagia | -rrhagiae |