Masculine

-ismus

-ism; Suffixed to nouns or verbs to forms masculine abstract nouns of practice (action or incidence), result, teaching (doctrine or philosophy), or status (state or condition) related to the thing or action so suffixed

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɪs.mʊs]

From Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós), a suffix that forms abstract nouns of practice or teaching (doctrine), which itself is from the stem of verbs in -ίζω (-ízō).