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The suffix -ectomy means âsurgical removal of.â When you see -ectomy at the end of any term, no matter how long or how difficult or confusing the first part of the word is, it means surgical removal of something. Another term almost everyone knows that ends in -ectomy is appendectomy, surgical removal of the appendix.
The suffix is placed after the root of a word, the prefix before. So the root is what's left once suffixes, prefixes, and case endings have been taken away. In the case of the word enlargement, the root is enlarge. The suffix -ment refers to an action, or the result of an action. So enlargment denotes the action, or the result of the action, of getting larger.