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Suffix   /sˈəfɪks/   Listen
noun
Suffix  n.  
1.
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
2.
(Math.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.


verb
Suffix  v. t.  (past & past part. suffixed; pres. part. suffixing)  To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.





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"Suffix" Quotes from Famous Books



... "A township—the suffix denotes a state of being—seems to be a place which is not in the state of being a town. Does its pride resent the impost of village that it is glad to be called by a name which is no name, or is the word loosely appropriated ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... and "hringr," a circle or ring, may be equally incorrect. The settlements in the neighbourhood must have occupied the margin of the marshes in close proximity to one another, and most of them from the suffix "ton" would appear to have been the "tuns" or fortified villages named after the family who founded them. Thus we find between Pickering and Scarborough at the present time a string of eleven villages ...
— The Evolution Of An English Town • Gordon Home
... is meant the gradation of vowels both in stem and suffix, which was chiefly caused by the primitive Indo-Germanic system of accentuation. See the Author's Historical German Grammar, ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
... old Homeric infinitive in menai, and you find its explanation in the Sanskrit termination mane, i.e. manai, the native of the suffix man (not, as others suppose, the locative of a suffix mana), by which a large number of nouns are formed in Sanskrit. From gn, to know, we have (g)nman, Latin (g)nomn, that by which a thing is known, its name; from ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... suffix de Franceuil was afterwards dropped by her husband) appears to have inherited none of the adventurous and erratic tendencies of her progenitors. Aristocratic in her sympathies, philosophic in her intellect, and strictly decorous in her conduct, throughout the whole of her long and ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas


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