suffix
noun[C]
languageuk/ˈsʌf.ɪks/us/ˈsʌf.ɪks/B2
aletterorgroupoflettersaddedat the end of a word to make a new word:
后缀,词尾The suffix "-ness"addedto the end of the word "sweet"formsthe word "sweetness",changinganadjectiveinto anoun.后缀 -ness加在 sweet 之后构成 sweetness,把形容词变成了名词。
- In the word 'slowly', 'ly' is a suffix.
- The suffix 'less'changesanouninto anadjective,meaning'without'.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- affix
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ion
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- there'd
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable
Grammar
Suffixes
A suffix is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word which makes a new word.…Suffixes: spelling
Often, the suffix causes a spelling change to the original word. In the table above, the -e ending of complicate and create disappears when the -ion suffix is added. Other examples of spelling changes include:…Common suffixes and examples
suffix…Word formation
There are four main kinds of word formation: prefixes, suffixes, conversion and compounds.…Prefixes
We add prefixes before the base or stem of a word.…Suffixes
We add suffixes after the base or stem of a word. The main purpose of a suffix is to show what class of word it is (e.g. noun or adjective).…Conversion
Conversion involves the change of a word from one word class to another. For example, the verbs to email and to microwave are formed from the nouns email and microwave:…Compounding
When we use compounding, we link together two or more bases to create a new word. Normally, the first item identifies a key feature of the second word. For example, the two bases back and ache can combine to form the compound noun backache, and the two bases post and card combine to form the compound noun postcard.…Abbreviation
Abbreviation involves shortening a word. We do this in three main ways: clipping, acronyms and blends.…Back-formation
We form words with back-formation when we remove part of a word, usually something which we think is a suffix (or occasionally a prefix). We do this commonly when we form verbs from nouns.…