suffix

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌfɪks/
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/ˈsʌfɪks/ · /səˈfɪks/

Definition of suffix

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
    “The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”
    “The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]”
    “Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select a particular root from a database and identify the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply to the root as well as any suffixes.”
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noun

  1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
    “The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”
    “The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]”
    “Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select a particular root from a database and identify the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply to the root as well as any suffixes.”
  2. A subscript.
  3. A final segment of a string of characters.
    “The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".”

verb

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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3-letter words

4 words

2-letter words

6 words

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