suffix

See also Suffix

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA: /ˈsʌfɪks/

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

Noun

suffix (plural suffixes)

1. One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning, such as able, which changes sing into singable, for example.

Usage notes

• The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard Latin plural.

Coordinate terms

• (types of affixes): affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, infix, interfix, postfix, prefix, suprafix

Derived terms

• inflectional suffix
• derivational suffix
• suffixal
• suffixation

Translations

letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning

• Arabic: لاحقة (ar) (laḥiqa) f
• Armenian: վերջածանց (hy) (verǰaçanc’)
• Belarusian: суфікс (be) (súfiks) m
• Bulgarian: суфикс (bg) (sufíks) m, наставка (bg) (nastávka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後綴 (cmn), 后缀 (cmn) (hòuzhuì), 尾綴 (cmn), 尾缀 (cmn) (wěizhuì)

• Czech: přípona (cs) f
• Dutch: achtervoegsel (nl) n, suffix (nl) m, aanhangsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: sufikso (eo)
• Finnish: pääte (fi), suffiksi (fi)
• French: suffixe (fr) m
• Georgian: სუფიქსი (ka) (sup’ik’si)
• German: Suffix (de) n, Nachsilbe (de) f, nachgestellte Silbe (de) f
• Greek: επίθημα (el) (epíthima) n
• Icelandic: viðskeyti (is) n
• Ido: sufixo (io)

• Interlingua: suffixo
• Italian: suffisso (it) m
• Japanese: 接尾辞 (ja) (せつびじ, setsubiji)
• Latin: suffixus
• Latvian: piedēklis m, sufikss m
• Norwegian: suffiks (no) n
• Persian: پسوند (pasvand)
• Polish: przyrostek (pl) m
• Portuguese: sufixo (pt)
• Romanian: sufix (ro) n
• Russian: суффикс (ru) (súffiks) m
• Scottish Gaelic: iar-leasachan (gd) m,iar-mhìr (gd) m and f
• Serbo-Croatian: sufiks (sh) m, dometak (sh) m
• Spanish: sufijo (es) m
• Turkish: sonek (tr)
• Ukrainian: суфікс (uk) (súfiks) m
• Volapük: poyümot (vo)

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

Translations

append (something) to the end of something else

• Finnish: liittää, (grammar) suffiksoida
• French: suffixer (fr)
• German: suf­fi­gie­ren (de) (linguistics), mit einem Suffix versehen (de)

• Icelandic: skeyta við (is)
• Norwegian: suffigere (no)

Related terms

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