suffix

Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) +‎ fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- +‎ -fix.

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌfɪks/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌfɪks/, /səˈfɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks

suffix (plural suffixes)

2. (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".

3. (mathematics) A subscript.
4. (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

   The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

• 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.

• (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix

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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.

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suffix n

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