suffix

/noun suhf-iks; verb suhf-iks, suh-fiks/US // noun ˈsʌf ɪks; verb ˈsʌf ɪks, səˈfɪks //

后缀,词尾,后辍,后置词

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- : something added to the end of something else.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : Grammar. to add as a suffix.
- : to affix at the end of something.
- : to fix or put under.

v.无主动词 verb

nounaffix

Forms: suffixes

Synonyms

This is because of a language process called derivational morphology, which controls what suffixes we add to the ends of words to create new ones.
Follows the rule of a place name ending in K getting an -er suffix.
It’s a term the protesting doctors have coined by combining the word “mix” and the suffix “pathy,” or disease.
“I think Spire is just the suffix,” said Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi.
At a later time, wonder, when thus used adverbially, received the adverbial suffix -s; hence Th.
When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.
This suffix is the equivalent of the French -age, and is a suffix of frequent occurrence in forming new words.
I have a list now before me of 521 places with this suffix, distributed over twenty-five counties.
Exeter, Wroxeter and perhaps Uttoxeter show the suffix in slightly different form.