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-machy

  1. a combining form meaning “fighting,” used in the formation of compound words:

    logomachy.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of -machy1

< Greek -machia, equivalent to á ( ŧ ) battle + -ia -y 3
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Example Sentences

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As a member of Beta Chi Theta, which sits on both the IFC and the MGC, Bogan said some of his brothers take more interest in cultural activities, while others are more attuned to popular Greek events, like Machy Days and Homecoming. 

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All Greenhow was proud of its “Mr Machy,” as the little Mary called it, thinking perhaps that it was a wonderful live creature.

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51Թs having the following terminations are usually accented on the antepenult, or third syllable from the end: cracy, ferous, fluent, flous, honal, gony, grapher, graphy, loger, logist, logy, loquy, machy, mathy, meter, metry, nomy, nomy, parous, pathy, phony, scopy, strophe, tomy, trophy, vomous, vorous.

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