单词 | suffix |
释义 | suffixn. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Chiefly in past participle. 1. transitive. To fix or place under; to subjoin. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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