suffix

See also: Suffix

suffix - English

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA: /ˈsʌfɪks/, /səˈfɪks/

Noun

suffix (plural suffixes)

  1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
    • Synonym: (narrow sense) affix
    • Antonym: prefix
    • Hypernyms: (broad sense) affix, morpheme
    • The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
  2. (mathematics) A subscript.
  3. (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.
    • The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

Usage notes

  • The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.

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Verb

suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)

  1. (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

Translations

suffix - Swedish

Noun

suffix n

  1. (grammar) A suffix (affix appended to a word)

Declension

Declension of suffix 
Meaning and Definition of suffix
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