Meaning

3 senses
  1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

    The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

    Suffix, Postfix, Nachsilbe

    су́ффиксsúffiks, по́стфиксpóstfiks

    су́фіксsúfiks, на́ростокnárostok

    an affix that is added at the end of the word

  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".

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Is "ing" an example of a suffix?

  2. Agglutinative languages have a lot of suffixes.

    ruВ агглютинативных языках много суффиксов. — Wezel

    deAgglutinierende Sprachen haben viele Suffixe. — Yorwba

  3. There are many situations in which this suffix might be used.

    deEs gibt viele Fälle, in denen dieses Suffix benutzt werden könnte. — Yorwba

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  4. I believe that we do not need to limit these suffixes now.

    deIch glaube, dass wir diese Suffixe jetzt nicht begrenzen müssen. — Vortarulo

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  5. You just have to understand what sort of thing the suffix '-osity' is.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning:
Русский
By meaning 1
morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive part

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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