suffixation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English suffix

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English suffixation

From suffix + -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsʌfɪkˈseɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: suf‧fix‧a‧tion

Noun

suffixation (countable and uncountable, plural suffixations)

1. The process of adding a suffix to a word.

   Synonym: suffixion

   Antonym: prefixation

   Coordinate terms: affixation, infixation, interfixation, prefixation

   • 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:

     Assimilation as a result of suffixation

Derived terms

• resuffixation

Translations

addition of a suffix

• Finnish: jälkiliitteen lisääminen, suffiksaatio
• French: suffixation (fr) f
• German: Suffigierung (de) f, (both rare) Suffixion f, Suffixation f
• Russian: суффиксация (ru) f (suffiksacija)
• Spanish: sufijación (es) f
• Turkish: sonekleme
• Welsh: olddodi m

References

• “suffixation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.fik.sa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

suffixation f (plural suffixations)

1. suffixation

Further reading

• “suffixation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012