suffix

plural suffixes

1. grammarA morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

   The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

   2 more examples

   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

   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.

   2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025, pages 3, 6

   Synonyms: affix · Antonyms: prefix

2. mathematicsA subscript.
3. computingA final segment of a string of characters.

   The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

present singular third person suffixes · participle present suffixing · participle past suffixed · past suffixed

1. transitiveTo 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

2. transitiveTo 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

3. intransitiveTo treat or use as a suffix.