suffix

Borrowed from Latin suffixum (“suffix”), from sub (“under, beneath”) + fixus, perfect passive participle of figere (“to fasten, fix”).

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌfɪks/

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

suffix (plural suffixes)

1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

   Synonym: affix (narrow sense)

   Antonym: prefix

   Hypernym: affix (broad sense)

   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".

• 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, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, suprafix

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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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