suffix
/ˈsʌfɪks/
suffix noun: a morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Noun
suffix (plural suffixes)
- A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
- The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv
- A subscript.
- A final segment of a string of characters.
- The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
Verb
suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
- To append (something) to the end of something else.
- [...] by suffixing the ending -or to collaborat-, the stem of collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together with.1882, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, page 121
- To cause (something) to be appended with something else at its end.
- [...] by suffixing the verb with the gerundive suffix [...]2013, Case, Scope, and Binding, page 53
- To treat or use as a suffix.
suffix meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
suffix in Hindi
- morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
- प्रत्यय pratyay
suffix in Tamil
- morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
- பின்னொட்டு piṉṉoṭṭu
suffix in Marathi
- suffix
- प्रत्यय pratyay
suffix in Urdu
- morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
- لاحِقَہ lāhiqa
More languagesFewer languages
- suffix in Bengali
- প্রত্যয় prottoẏ
- suffix in Telugu
- పరసర్గ parasarga
- suffix in Malayalam
- പ്രത്യയം pratyayaṁ
- suffix in Kannada
- ಹಿನ್ನೊಟ್ಟು
- suffix in Gujarati
- પ્રત્યય
- suffix in Odia
- ପ୍ରତ୍ଯଯ, ସଫିକ୍ସ
- suffix in Sanskrit
- प्रत्यय pratyaya
- suffix in Tagalog
- hulapi
- suffix in Arabic
- لَاحِقَة lāḥiqa
- suffix in Malay
- akhiran
- suffix in Indonesian
- akhiran
- suffix in Thai
- ปัจจัย bpàt-jai
- suffix in Vietnamese
- hậu tố, đuôi
- suffix in Myanmar
- နောက်ဆက် naukhcak
- Kashmiri
- پۆت لۆگ
Examples of suffix in a sentence
- English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
- In English the inflectional suffix -ed is used to form the past of most regular verbs.
- Prefixes, suffixes, and infixes are all affixing particles.
Synonyms of suffix
Antonyms
Forms of suffix
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | suffixes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | suffixes |
| present participle | suffixing |
| past participle | suffixed |
| past | suffixed |
Origin of suffix
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
Words formed from suffix
Phrases with suffix
Words that rhyme with suffix
Questions about suffix
- What does suffix mean?
- Suffix means a morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- What is suffix in Hindi?
- Suffix in Hindi is प्रत्यय (pratyay). See Suffix meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is suffix?
- Suffix can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce suffix?
- Suffix is pronounced /ˈsʌfɪks/.
- What is the plural of suffix?
- The plural of suffix is suffixes.
Words near suffix in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suffix (page history and authors); प्रत्यय (Marathi) (page history and authors); పరసర్గ (Telugu) (page history and authors); പ്രത്യയം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); suffix (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suffix (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suffix (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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