suffix

See also: Suffix

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) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌfɪks/

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

Noun

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".

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 affixesedit

• adfix
• affix
• ambifix
• circumfix
• confix
• disfix
• duplifix
• infix
• interfix
• libfix
• postfix
• prefix
• prefixoid
• simulfix
• suffix
• suffixoid
• suprafix
• transfix

Derived terms

• derivational suffix
• inflectional suffix
• null suffix
• possessive suffix
• semisuffix
• suffixal
• suffixation
• suffixness
• zero suffix

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 (sh) 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

See also

• Category:English suffixes

Verb

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.

Related terms

• affix
• crucifixion
• fix
• fixation
• infix
• postfix
• prefix
• suffixal
• suffixion
• suffix tree

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 (es) Welsh: ychwanegu (cy), atodi (cy), olddodi

Further reading

• suffix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Noun

suffix n

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

Declension

Declension of suffix

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	suffix	suffix
	definite	suffixet	suffixets
plural	indefinite	suffix	suffix
	definite	suffixen	suffixens