suffix
A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Other meanings
A final segment of a string of characters.
“The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".”
Related words
- suffixable
- suffixhood
- suffixive
- suffixless
- suffixlike
- testaceology
- derivational suffix
- inflectional suffix
- null suffix
- possessive suffix
- semisuffix
- suffixal
Word history
From Latin "suffīxus".
Where this comes from
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