suffix
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 6
/ˈsʌfɪks/
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/ˈsʌfɪks/ · /səˈfɪks/
Definition of suffix
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
-
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.”
- A subscript.
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A final segment of a string of characters.
“The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".”
verb
- (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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