Word part · Latin suffix
The Latin suffix -al
Means: having to do with.
At a glance
- Part
- -al
- Meaning
- having to do with
- Layer
- Latin: Prefixes, suffixes and roots behind many school and book words.
Turns a naming word into a describing word: music, musical. It often stacks with other suffixes: personality.
Example words
Read each word, then its sum: the parts that build it, and what they mean together.
Colors:prefixroot or basesuffix
- music (root or base)+al (suffix)→musical
having to do with music
- nature (root or base)+al (suffix)→natural
having to do with nature; not made by people
nature + al: drop the e → natural
- magic (root or base)+al (suffix)→magical
having to do with magic
- season (root or base)+al (suffix)→seasonal
having to do with a season of the year
- coast (root or base)+al (suffix)→coastal
having to do with the coast
- person (root or base)+al (suffix)+ity (suffix)→personality
the way a person usually thinks and acts
- inter (prefix)+nation (root or base)+al (suffix)→international
between or among nations
- il (prefix)+logic (root or base)+al (suffix)→illogical
not logical; not making sense
il + logic + al: the prefix changes to match → illogical
- form (root or base)+al (suffix)→formal
following set rules; proper
- in (prefix)+form (root or base)+al (suffix)→informal
relaxed; not formal
- bio (root or base)+log (root or base)+ic (suffix)+al (suffix)→biological
having to do with living things
- therm (root or base)+al (suffix)→thermal
having to do with heat
Original word lists and meanings written by Literacy Trail.
Taught alongside
Parts that share a lesson with -al.
- -ivetending to, or having the quality of
- -itythe state or quality of
- sub-under, or below
- -ablecan be, or able to be
- -tionthe act of, or the result of
- in-not
- de-down, away, or remove
- logythe study of
- -smore than one; or what one person or thing does now
- -ichaving to do with, or like
- graphwrite, or draw
- thermheat
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