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suffix

noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsʌfɪks/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪks
  • /səˈfɪks/
  • CMU ARPABET: S AH1 F IH0 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences

Examples

  • The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: affix

Antonyms: prefix

Broader terms: affix, morpheme

2

noun

Meaning 2

A subscript.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A final segment of a string of characters.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

an affix that is added at the end of the word

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: postfix

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: affix, ending, termination

6

verb

Meaning 6

attach a suffix to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • suffix words

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: prefix

Broader terms: affix

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.

Across languages

Translations

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: agtervoegsel — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Afrikaans: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Albanian: prapashtesë — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Arabic: لَاحِقَة (lāḥiqa) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Aragonese: sufixo — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Armenian: վերջածանց (verǰacancʻ) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Asturian: sufixu — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Azerbaijani: şəkilçi — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Azerbaijani: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Belarusian: су́фікс (súfiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Bengali: প্রত্যয় (prottoẏ) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Breton: lostger — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Bulgarian: суфи́кс (sufíks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Bulgarian: наста́вка (nastávka) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Burmese: နောက်ဆက် (naukhcak) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Carpathian Rusyn: су́фикс (súfyks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Catalan: sufix — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Chinese Mandarin: 後綴 /后缀 (hòuzhuì) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Chinese Mandarin: 尾綴 /尾缀 (wěizhuì) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Chinese Mandarin: 詞尾 /词尾 (cíwěi) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Crimean Tatar: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Czech: přípona — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Danish: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Dutch: achtervoegsel — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Dutch: aanhangsel — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Esperanto: postafikso — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Esperanto: sufikso — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Estonian: sufiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Finnish: jälkiliite — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Finnish: takaliite — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Finnish: suffiksi — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Finnish: pääte — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Galician: sufixo — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Georgian: სუფიქსი (supiksi) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Georgian: ბოლოსართი (bolosarti) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • German: Suffix — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • German: Postfix — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • German: Nachsilbe — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • German: Anhängsilbe — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Greek: επίθημα (epíthima) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Hebrew: סוֹפִית (sofít) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Hindi: प्रत्यय (pratyay) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Hungarian: képző — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Hungarian: végződés — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Hungarian: toldalék — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Icelandic: viðskeyti — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Ido: sufixo — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Indonesian: akhiran — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Irish: iarmhír — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Italian: suffisso — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Japanese: 接尾辞 (setsubiji) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Japanese: 接尾語 (setsubigo) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Kashmiri: پۆت لۆگ — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Kazakh: жұрнақ (jūrnaq) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Khmer: បច្ច័យ (paccay) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Korean: 접미사 (jeommisa) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Korean: 접미어 (jeommieo) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Central Kurdish: پاشگِر (paşgir) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Northern Kurdish: paşgir — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Kyrgyz: суффикс (suffiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Lao: ວິພັດ (wi phat) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Latin: affixum — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Latvian: piedēklis — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Latvian: sufikss — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Lithuanian: priesaga — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Lithuanian: sufiksas — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Macedonian: наставка (nastavka) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Macedonian: суфикс (sufiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Malay: akhiran — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Māori: pīmuri — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Māori: kūmuri — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Māori: hiku — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Mongolian: залгавар (zalgavar) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Norwegian Bokmål: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Old English: ġeendung — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Ossetian: фӕсӕфтуан (fæsæftwan) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Iranian Persian: پَسْوَنْد (pasvand) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Polish: przyrostek — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Portuguese: sufixo — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Quechua: k'askaq — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Romanian: sufix — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Russian: су́ффикс (súffiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Russian: по́стфикс (póstfiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Sanskrit: प्रत्यय (pratyaya) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Scottish Gaelic: iar-leasachan — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Scottish Gaelic: iar-mhìr — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Serbo-Croatian: су̀фикс — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Serbo-Croatian: до̀метак — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Serbo-Croatian: sùfiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Serbo-Croatian: dòmetak — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Slovak: prípona — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Slovene: pripona — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Spanish: sufijo — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Swahili: kiambishi tamati — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Tagalog: hulapi — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Tajik: суффикс (suffiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Tajik: пасванд (pasvand) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Tamil: பின்னொட்டு (piṉṉoṭṭu) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Thai: ปัจจัย (bpàt-jai) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Turkish: sonek — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Turkish: son ek — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Turkmen: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Ukrainian: су́фікс (súfiks) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Ukrainian: на́росток (nárostok) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Urdu: لاحِقَہ (lāhiqa) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Uyghur: قوشۇمچە (qoshumche) — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Uzbek: suffiks — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Vietnamese: hậu tố — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Vietnamese: đuôi — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Volapük: poyümot — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Welsh: olddodiad — morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
  • Catalan: sufixar — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Finnish: liittää — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Finnish: suffiksoida — append (something) to the end of something else
  • German: suffigieren — append (something) to the end of something else
  • German: mit einem Suffix versehen — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Greek: επιθηματοποιώ (epithimatopoió) — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: hozzátold — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: hozzátesz — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: megtold — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: hozzáilleszt — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: toldalékol — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: toldalékkal ellát — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Hungarian: szuffigál — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Icelandic: skeyta við — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Norwegian: suffigere — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Portuguese: sufixar — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Spanish: sufijar — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Welsh: ychwanegu — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Welsh: atodi — append (something) to the end of something else
  • Welsh: olddodi — append (something) to the end of something else
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