SUFFIX

Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, a suffix is called an afformative, as they can alter the form of the words to which they are fixed. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings . A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoid or a semi-suffix .

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suffix

Noun

  1. One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
    The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
  2. A subscript.

Verb

  1. to append (something) to the end of something else


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