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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



... Mrs. Adams. "Fame uses no prefixes. It is Pompey, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Alfred, Hampden, Oliver Cromwell. Or it is a suffix like Alexander the Great; or Richard Coeur-de-Lion. I have no objection to Washington the Great, or ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... two is the bourne or boundry of the two parishes, Woodhall and Stixwould (or Halstead), where the Welbys lived at that time. The first syllable of Sto-bourne would be “stow” or “stoc” a “stake” or post, marking the boundary; oftener used as a suffix than a prefix, as in Hawkstow, ...
— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter
... d'annes: the suffix -aine added to numerals generally implies an approximate number; une quinzaine, ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... "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 from ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... the Daughter of the Air; —tar is the usual feminine suffix in Finnish, and is generally to be understood to mean "daughter of ——." In the following passages we have the combined Finnish version of the widespread cosmogonical myths of the Divine Spirit brooding over the waters of Chaos; and the Mundane Egg. In the First Recension of the Kalevala ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous


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