English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowed from Latin suffīxus ( “ suffix ” ) , from sub- ( “ under ” ) + fīxus ( perfect passive participle of fīgere ( “ to fasten, fix ” ) ) , equivalent to sub- -fix
Pronunciation [ edit ] suffix (plural suffixes
( grammar , linguistic morphology ) 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".
( mathematics ) subscript .( computing ) final segment of a string of characters.
The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
Usage notes [ edit ] The plural suffices Coordinate terms [ edit ] ( types of affixes ) : adfix affix ambifix circumfix confix disfix duplifix infix interfix libfix postfix prefix prefixoid simulfix suffixoid suprafix transfix Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] 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 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 [ edit ] suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes present participle suffixing simple past and past participle suffixed
( transitive ) append (something) to the end of something else.Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] 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
Welsh: ychwanegu (cy) , atodi (cy) , olddodi
Further reading [ edit ] Swedish [ edit ] suffix n
( grammar ) suffix ( affix appended to a word ) Declension [ edit ] 