suffix
/ˈsʌfɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subscript.
noun
A final segment of a string of characters.
Example Sentences
- "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, […]"
- "Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select a particular root from a database and identify the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply to the root as well as any suffixes."
- "The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra"."
- "[...] by suffixing the ending -or to collaborat-, the stem of collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together with."
- "[...] by suffixing the verb with the gerundive suffix [...]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.