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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]Noun
[edit]suffix (plural suffixes)
- (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- (mathematics) A subscript.
- (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
[edit]- 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
[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
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
- (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]append (something) to the end of something else
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Further reading
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]suffix n
Declension
[edit]Declension of suffix | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | suffix | suffixet | suffix | suffixen |
Genitive | suffix | suffixets | suffix | suffixens |
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