suffix

noun

/ˈsʌfɪks/

Etymology

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

borrowed from suffīxus

Definitions

1
A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
- The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]
A subscript.
3
A final segment of a string of characters.
- The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
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1. To append (something) to the end of something else.

The neighborhood

Derived

derivational suffix, inflectional suffix, null suffix, possessive suffix, semisuffix, suffixable, suffixal, suffixation, suffixhood, suffixive, suffixless, suffixlike, suffixness, testaceology, zero suffix

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suffix. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at suffix. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at suffix

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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