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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
Pronunciation
Noun
suffix (plural suffixes)
- (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".
- (mathematics) A subscript.
- (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.
Coordinate terms
- (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
Derived terms
Translations
morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
- Afrikaans: agtervoegsel (af), suffiks
- Albanian: prapashtesë (sq) f
- Arabic: لَاحِقَة f (lāḥiqa)
- Aragonese: sufixo m
- Armenian: վերջածանց (hy) (verǰacancʻ)
- Asturian: sufixu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: şəkilçi (az), suffiks
- Belarusian: су́фікс m (súfiks)
- Bengali: প্রত্যয় (bn) (prottoẏ)
- Breton: lostger (br) m
- Bulgarian: суфи́кс (bg) m (sufíks), наста́вка (bg) f (nastávka)
- Burmese: နောက်ဆက် (my) (naukhcak)
- Catalan: sufix (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 後綴／后缀 (zh) (hòuzhuì), 尾綴／尾缀 (zh) (wěizhuì)
- Crimean Tatar: suffiks
- Czech: přípona (cs) f
- Danish: suffiks (da) n
- Dutch: achtervoegsel (nl) n, suffix (nl) m, aanhangsel (nl) n
- Esperanto: postafikso, sufikso (eo)
- Estonian: sufiks
- Finnish: jälkiliite (fi), takaliite (fi), suffiksi (fi), pääte (fi)
- French: suffixe (fr) m
- Galician: sufixo (gl) m
- Georgian: სუფიქსი (supiksi), ბოლოსართი (bolosarti)
- German: Suffix (de) n (Suffixum n, Affix (de) n (narrow sense), Affixum n), Postfix n, Nachsilbe (de) f, Anhängsilbe f
- Greek: επίθημα (el) n (epíthima)
- Hebrew: סוֹפִית (he) f (sofít)
- Hindi: प्रत्यय (hi) m (pratyay)
- Hungarian: képző (hu), végződés (hu), toldalék (hu)
- Icelandic: viðskeyti n
- Ido: sufixo (io)
- Indonesian: akhiran (id)
- Interlingua: suffixo
- Irish: iarmhír (ga) f
- Italian: suffisso (it) m
- Japanese: 接尾辞 (ja) (せつびじ, setsubiji), 接尾語 (ja) (せつびご, setsubigo)
- Kazakh: жұрнақ (jūrnaq)
- Khmer: បច្ច័យ (km) (paccay)
- Korean: 접미사 (ko) (jeommisa), 접미어 (jeommieo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پاشگِر (ckb) (paşgir)
- Northern Kurdish: paşgir (ku)
- Kyrgyz: суффикс (suffiks)
- Lao: ວິພັດ (wi phat)
- Latin: suffixum, affixum
- Latvian: piedēklis (lv) m, sufikss (lv) m
- Lithuanian: priesaga f, sufiksas m
- Macedonian: наставка f (nastavka), суфикс m (sufiks)
- Malay: akhiran (ms)
- Maori: pīmuri, kūmuri, hiku
- Mongolian: залгавар (mn) (zalgavar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: suffiks (no) n
- Nynorsk: suffiks n
- Persian: پسوند (fa) (pasvand)
- Polish: przyrostek (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: sufixo (pt)
- Quechua: k'askaq
- Romanian: sufix (ro) n
- Russian: су́ффикс (ru) m (súffiks), по́стфикс (ru) m (póstfiks)
- Scottish Gaelic: iar-leasachan m, iar-mhìr m or f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: суфикс m, дометак m
- Roman: sufiks (sh) m, dometak (sh) m
- Slovak: prípona f
- Slovene: pripona (sl) f
- Spanish: sufijo (es) m
- Swahili: kiambishi tamati
- Swedish: suffix (sv) n
- Tagalog: hulapi (tl)
- Tajik: суффикс (tg) (suffiks), пасванд (pasvand)
- Tamil: பின்னொட்டு (ta) (piṉṉoṭṭu)
- Thai: ปัจจัย (th) (bpàt-jai)
- Turkish: sonek (tr)
- Turkmen: suffiks
- Ukrainian: су́фікс (uk) m (súfiks)
- Uzbek: suffiks (uz)
- Vietnamese: hậu tố (vi), đuôi (vi) (colloquial)
- Volapük: poyümot (vo)
- Welsh: olddodiad (cy) m
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See also
Verb
suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
- (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
Related terms
Translations
append (something) to the end of something else
- Finnish: liittää (fi), (grammar) suffiksoida
- French: suffixer (fr)
- German: suffigieren (linguistics), mit einem Suffix versehen
- Greek: επιθηματοποιώ (epithimatopoió)
- Hungarian: hozzátold (hu), hozzátesz (hu), megtold (hu), hozzáilleszt (hu), toldalékol (hu), toldalékkal ellát, szuffigál
- Icelandic: skeyta við
- Norwegian: suffigere
- Portuguese: sufixar (pt)
- Spanish: sufijar
- Welsh: ychwanegu (cy), atodi (cy), olddodi
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Further reading
Swedish
Noun
suffix n
- (grammar) A suffix (affix appended to a word)
Declension
