different between suffix vs prefixation

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)

1. (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

2. (mathematics) A subscript.
3. (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

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See also

• Category:English suffixes

Verb

suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)

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

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Further reading

• suffix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1889; formed as prefix +? -ation.

Noun

prefixation (plural prefixations)

1. (linguistics) The adding of a prefix to a word.

   Antonym: suffixation

   Coordinate terms: affixation, infixation, interfixation, suffixation

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Etymology 2

First attested in 1921; formed as pre- +? fixation.

Noun

prefixation (plural prefixations)

1. (anatomy, of a nerve) The state or condition of being prefixed.
2. (biology, cytology) Initial treatment of tissue with a fixative, as a preliminary to the application of another fixative or to the use of a different treatment.

Related terms

• prefixative

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References

• “prefi?xation” in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 (lists both homographs in one entry)
• “prefixation, n.¹” in the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, March 2007 (lists the linguistic term)
• “prefixation, n.²” in the Oxford English Dictionary third edition, March 2007 (lists the anatomical and biological term)