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-ίνες
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Greek
Etymology
Plural form of el -ίνα suffix forming feminine nouns. The taxonomic sense is a 1 el mul -inae.
Suffix
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el -ίνα
el zoology taxonomy mul -inae, a suffix creating pluralia tantum nouns or proper nouns of zoological subfamilies.
el Ιππότραγος Hippotragus genus -ίνες Ιπποτραγίνες Hippotraginae subfamily
el άνθρωπος human, Homo genus -ίνες Ανθρωπίνες Homininae subfamily
el αίλουρος felid -ίνες Αιλουρίνες Felinae subfamily
Declension
-ίν
Derived terms
el -ίνα -ine semantic back-formation
See also
Υποοικογένεια el
el -ίδες mul -idae