-isma

Ultimately, from Latin -ismus.

-isma

1. -ism

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪs.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiz.ma]

-isma n (genitive -ismatis); third declension

1. (rare, not productive, in words derived from Greek) alternative form of -ismus; -ism (used to form nouns of action or process or result)

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• baptisma, encathisma, hypocorisma

From Dutch -isme, from Middle French -isme, from Latin -ismus, from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós). Attested in the Kitab Vortaro published in 1923.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /-iz.ma/, /-is.ma/, /-is.mə/
• Hyphenation: -is‧me

-isma

1. -ism.

   organisma ― organism

• This suffix is used in borrowed words with the -ism suffix that refer to entities (as in prisma (“prisma”) and organisma (“organism”)).
• For borrowed words with the -ism suffix that refer to ideologies, beliefs, etc., the suffix -isme is used instead (as in rasisme (“racism”) and ateisme (“atheism”)).