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suffix
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffixum (“suffix”), from sub (“under, beneath”) + fixus, perfect passive participle of figere (“to fasten, fix”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?s?f?ks/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?s?f?ks/, /s??f?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
suffix (plural suffixes)
- (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- Synonym: (narrow sense) affix
- Antonym: prefix
- Hypernym: (broad sense) affix
- (mathematics) A subscript.
- (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.
Usage notes
- The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.
Coordinate terms
- (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Category:English suffixes
Verb
suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
- (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- suffix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
suffix From the web:
- what suffix means
- what suffix means inflammation
- what suffix means filled with
- what suffix means pertaining to
- what suffix is used to indicate an anion
- what suffix means the study of
- what suffix means pain
- what suffix means disease
affix
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- +? fix.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?æ.f?ks/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?.?f?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
affix (plural affixes)
- That which is affixed; an appendage.
- Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
- (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
- Synonyms: suffix, postfix
- (linguistic morphology, broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.
- Antonym: nonaffix
- Hyponyms: prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, suprafix
- (mathematics) The complex number associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates .
- (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
Coordinate terms
- (types of affixes): adfix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
- clitic
Translations
Verb
affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)
- (transitive) To attach.
- Synonyms: join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
- Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food […]
- (transitive) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
- (transitive) To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty
- Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty
Translations
Further reading
- affix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin affixum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f?ks/
- Hyphenation: af?fix
Noun
affix n (plural affixen, diminutive affixje n)
- Affix (linguistics and mathematics)
Swedish
Noun
affix n
- an affix
Declension
affix From the web:
- what affixes mean without
- what affix means
- what affixes
- what affixes wow
- what affix means front
- what affixes means against
- what affix means capable of
- what affix means to pull
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