Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Suffix" Quotes from Famous Books



... Note: Footnotes in the printed book have been inserted in the etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where they were referenced by a suffix in the original text. Text in italics has been written in capital letters. There are some numbered notes at the end of the text that are referred to by their numbers with brief notes, also in square brackets, embedded in ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... ending for feminine nouns. [Footnote: The suffix ess came into the English language from the Norman-French. It displaced the feminine termination of the mother-tongue (A. S. estre, old English ster). The original meaning of ster is preserved in spinster. Er (A. S. ere) was originally a masculine suffix; but it ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... have,'' and yam, "I am.'' An interesting and characteristic feature of the language is the definite article, which is attached to the end of the word: e.g. mik ("friend,'' amicus), mik-u ("the friend''); kien ("dog''), kien-i Shkumb, Shkumb-i. The suffix-article likewise appears in Rumanian and Bulgarian, but in no other Latin or Slavobic language; it is in each case a form of the demonstrative pronoun. Another remarkable analogy between the Albanian and the neighbouring languages is found in the formation of the future; ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... mullus. Herring is well worth following back to its origin. We know that the most marked habit of fishes of this type is their herding together in great schools or masses or armies. In the very high German heri meant an army or host; hence our word harry and, with a suffix, herring. ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... this etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where they were indicated by a suffix ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com