Definitions for suffix

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suffix suf·fix

Spelling: [noun suhf-iks; verb suhf-iks, s Suffix is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in suffix (ffisux).

Definitions for suffix

noun

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

verb (used with object)

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

verb (used without object)

1. to admit a suffix.
2. to add a suffix.

Origin of suffix

1595-1605; New Latin suffixum, noun use of neuter of Latin suffixus (past participle of suffīgere to attach on top of), equivalent to suf- suf- + fixus (see Examples for suffix

Males usually add the title Sing as a suffix to their names.

Make the proper adverbs from these adjectives by the addition of the suffix ly.

In Essex the h is often dropped, and the suffix becomes 'am.'

Most words ending in y preceded by a vowel retain the y before a suffix.

Garin or Warin, because the original vowel and the suffix are both different.

This suffix is seldom used except with names of countries and states.

“I think Spire is just the suffix,” said Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi.

In Latin the suffix -etum was used to designate a grove or plantation.

To the shorter and commoner words in the language add the suffix er.

Landscape, earlier landskip, has the suffix which in English would be -ship.