Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ess"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
-ess \-ess\ [OF. -esse, LL. -issa, Gr. ?.]
A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess,
songstress.
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