Talk:-testosterone

RFD discussion: December 2020–January 2021
Why do we have a suffix when testosterone (noun) is a perfectly suitable morpheme? Is there some chemical subtlety that justifies a difference? DCDuring (talk) 03:24, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I could be completely wrong, but has a user name that suggests their native language is Chinese. The Chinese writing system developed at a time when the language had pretty much nothing in the way of affixes and not very much in the way of compounding, so they may not have a very good grasp of the difference between affixes, elements in compounds, and separate words in phrases. It's sort of like someone who's colorblind assembling a kit with color-coded parts. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:59, 23 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete along with all the other so-called prefixes and suffixes created by the same person. SemperBlotto (talk) 07:43, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Definitely not a suffix. DonnanZ (talk) 10:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a prefix. --Robbie SWE (talk) 14:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Glancing at w:Category:Androgens and anabolic steroids, it seems like the steroids whose names end in -testosterone are actually just testosterone with some functional group, like ethyltestosterone (ethylated testosterone, i.e. testosterone with an ethyl group). It apparently just so happens that testosterone doesn't stop being an androgen when you add most groups to it.__Gamren (talk) 14:55, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Abstain. I don't know enough about biology or chemistry to make a determination. &mdash; Dentonius 11:15, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:00, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * RFD deleted.__Gamren (talk) 20:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)