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I am wondering what is the suffix of "feature". The wordinfo website does not list the suffix for this word.
https://wordinfo.info/results?searchString=feature
But it lists "-ure" as the suffix of "rupture". Does it mean that the "-ure" in "feature" should not be considered as a suffix as it doens't denote "an act or result, result of the act of".
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English words ending with an apparent suffix -ure, from Latin -ura, fall into two great classes: 1) those taken from Latin, directly or through French, where the suffix was present in one or both languages, and 2) those where the suffix was used to form new English words following the same pattern but without Latin/French originals.
Feature, from Anglo-French feture, Old French faiture, ultimately from Latin factura, belongs to the first class along with many other words, such as manufacture, departure or nomenclature.
Belonging to the second class are, for example, exposure, erasure, seizure, and expenditure.
