English Etymology Borrowed from Latin suffixum ( “ suffix ” ) , from sub ( “ under, beneath ” ) + fixus figere ( “ to fasten, fix ” ) .
Pronunciation Noun 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 Hypernym: ( broad sense ) affix 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 The plural suffices Coordinate terms ( types of affixes ) : adfix affix ambifix circumfix confix disfix duplifix infix interfix libfix postfix prefix prefixoid simulfix suffixoid suprafix transfix Derived terms Translations morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
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 )
Bulgarian: суфи́кс (bg) m ( sufíks ) , наста́вка (bg) f ( nastávka )
Catalan: sufix (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 後綴 ／ 后缀 (zh) ( hòuzhuì ) , 后缀 (zh) ( hòuzhuì ) , 尾綴 ／ 尾缀 (zh) ( wěizhuì ) , 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 )
Hindi: प्रत्यय (hi) m ( pratyay )
Hungarian: képző (hu) , végződés (hu) , toldalék (hu)
Icelandic: viðskeyti n
Ido: sufixo (io)
Interlingua: suffixo
Italian: suffisso (it) m
Japanese: 接尾辞 (ja) ( せつびじ, setsubiji )
Kazakh: жұрнақ ( jūrnaq )
Korean: 접미사 (ko) ( jeommisa )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پاشگِر ( paşgir )
Kyrgyz: суффикс ( suffiks )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Latin: suffixum affixum
Latvian: piedēklis m sufikss (lv) m
Lithuanian: priesaga f sufiksas m
Macedonian: на́ставка f ( nástavka ) , су́фикс m ( súfiks )
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 )
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
Swedish: suffix (sv)
Tagalog: hulapi (tl)
Tajik: суффикс (tg) ( suffiks )
Tamil: பின்னொட்டு (ta) ( piṉṉoṭṭu )
Thai: ปัจจัย (th) ( bpàt-jai )
Turkish: sonek (tr)
Turkmen: suffiks
Ukrainian: су́фікс m ( súfiks )
Uzbek: suffiks (uz)
Vietnamese: hậu tố (vi)
Volapük: poyümot (vo)
Welsh: olddodiad (cy) m
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( transitive ) append (something) to the end of something else.Related terms Translations append (something) to the end of something else
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