Suffix

Definitions

1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
2. A subscript.
3. A final segment of a string of characters.

Equivalents

Examples

“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, […]”

“Before I simply create⟳ a root meaning X, is there any way I can use⟳ Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write⟳ or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select⟳ a particular root from a database and identify⟳ the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply⟳ to the root as well as any suffixes.”

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

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