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单词 suffix
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suffixn.

Brit. /ˈsʌfɪks/, U.S. /ˈsəfɪks/
Etymology: < modern Latin suffixum, substantive use of neuter of suffixus , past participle of suffīgĕre , < suf- = sub- prefix 1b + fīgĕre to fix v. Compare French suffixe.
1. Grammar. A verbal element attached to the end of a word to form an entirely new word (e.g. short, short-age, short-en, short-er, short-est, short-ish, short-ly, short-ness) or as an inflectional formative (e.g. ox, ox-en).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix
termisona1400
termination1495
paragoge1577
paragogic1593
desinence1598
terminative1649
suffix1778
subfix1795
postfix1805
ending1864
postbase1958
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 243 These being all the places, where this word occurs without a suffix.
1864 I. Taylor Words & Places 124 The suffixes which occur most frequently in Anglo-Saxon names denote an enclosure of some kind.
1900 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. 459 This suffix is frequent in names of animals, generally expressing youth or smallness, as in youngling.
1904 H. Bradley Making of Eng. 133 The freedom with which we can still form new derivatives by means of suffixes inherited from Old English.
2. Mathematics. An inferior index written to the right of a symbol.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > figure > index
indexa1690
exponent1734
suffix1842
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 211/1 Suffix, a term lately employed in mathematical language to denote the indices which are written under letters, as in a0, a1, a2, a3.
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 14 The suffixes signifying that n is to receive all integer values from 1 to ∞.

Compounds

C1. attributive.
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1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia i. 7 The Australian idioms are characterised exclusively by suffix formations.
C2.
suffix ablaut n. variation in the vowel of a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > ablaut > in vowel of a suffix
suffix ablaut1900
1900 E. Björkman Scand. Loan-words in Middle Eng. I. 112 Here ag might depend on suffix-ablaut as in O.E. fagen, fag(e)nian.
1977 Archivum Linguisticum 8 80 We must now examine cases where SF apparently fails, despite a following [l] rather than [ɫ]. Several cases, such as falaed, alaer may be explicable on grounds of ‘suffix ablaut’.
suffix language n. a language inflected by means of suffixes.
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the mind > language > [noun] > language characterized by grammar or morphology
suffix language1874
P1891
1874 H. Bendall tr. A. Schleicher Compar. Gram. 3 The Indo-European is therefore a suffix-language, together with the neighbouring languages of the Finnish stem.
1881 W. D. Whitney Mixt. in Lang. 21 A prefix-language..might live in contact with a suffix-language forever without finding out the latter's character..until, perchance, it should have borrowed suffix-words enough to create in its own usage an analogy [etc.].
suffix-pronominal adj. having suffixal pronouns.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes > specific types of suffix
afformative1821
patrial1832
suffix-pronominal1869
absolutive1962
1869 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. II ii. 136 One of these families of languages (either the Prefix-Pronominal or the Suffix-Pronominal).

Derivatives

ˈsuffixal adj. of the form or nature of a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes
paragogical1607
paragogic1705
postpositive1712
terminational1765
desinential1818
postfixed1839
postpositional1850
suffixed1869
suffixal1874
postfixal1887
postfixial1893
suffixual1901
postmedial1958
1874 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. 101 The cons. and suffixal forms of sing. and plur. coincide in spelling.
suffixˈation n. formation by means of a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix > use or addition of
suffixion1860
postfixing1868
suffixment1879
suffixation1899
1899 Fay in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. XX. 449 After composition had sunk to suffixation.
suˈffixion n. [after prefixion n.] the act of suffixing or state of being suffixed.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix > use or addition of
suffixion1860
postfixing1868
suffixment1879
suffixation1899
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing N. Brit. Rev.) Suffixion.
ˈsuffixment n. use as a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix > use or addition of
suffixion1860
postfixing1868
suffixment1879
suffixation1899
1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) vii. 331 An old French form -ie, now become y, of whose various suffixment mention has been made above.
ˈsuffixual adj. = suffixal adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes
paragogical1607
paragogic1705
postpositive1712
terminational1765
desinential1818
postfixed1839
postpositional1850
suffixed1869
suffixal1874
postfixal1887
postfixial1893
suffixual1901
postmedial1958
1901 J. Huguenin Secondary Stress in Anglo-Saxon 13 The inflected cases in which the suffixual syllable is lengthened by position are, the genitive and dative singular feminine, the accusative singular masculine, and the genitive plural.
1964 K. L. Pike in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 425 A train of alternating stresses..clashes with a different wave train keyed into a mora count beginning from the last suffixual syllable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

suffixv.

Brit. /ˈsʌfɪks/, /səˈfɪks/, U.S. /ˈsəfɪks/
Etymology: Partly < Latin suffixus (see suffix n.), partly < suffix n.
Chiefly in past participle.
1. transitive. To fix or place under; to subjoin.
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society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > attach as writing > bring one statement under, subjoin
subsume1535
subjoin1543
subnect1583
subnex1603
suffix1604
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Suffixed, fastened vnto.
1891 Downside Rev. X. 179 These are the words or letters which are suffixed to the larger part of the unacknowledged verse.
1900 19th Cent. Aug. 240 That splendid outburst of indignant eloquence which he suffixed as a dedicatory epilogue to the Idylls of the King.
2. To add as a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > use morphemes [verb (transitive)] > add as prefix or suffix
prefix1605
suffix1778
postfix1823
preplace1905
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 243 It occurs in other instances with a Pronoun suffixed.
1837 C. Richardson Dict. I. 64 From which by suffixing ed, we form a new participle.
1872 J. Peile Introd. Greek & Lat. Etymol. (ed. 2) 51 If pronominal, they must have been suffixed at first to modify the root in a general way.

Derivatives

suffixed adj. used as a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes
paragogical1607
paragogic1705
postpositive1712
terminational1765
desinential1818
postfixed1839
postpositional1850
suffixed1869
suffixal1874
postfixal1887
postfixial1893
suffixual1901
postmedial1958
1869 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. II ii. 136 (note) The use of such a suffixed article.
a1902 A. B. Davidson O.T. Prophecy (1903) xx. 348 All the suffixed pronouns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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