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発音

• IPA: (noun) /ˈsʌfɪks/
• (verb) IPA: /ˈsʌfɪks/, /səˈfɪks/
• 韻: -ɪks

名詞

suffix (plural suffixes)

1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

   Synonym: (narrow sense) affix

   Antonym: prefix

   Hypernyms: (broad sense) affix, morpheme

   The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:

     The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]

   • 2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library‎, archived from the original on 14 January 2025, pages 3, 6:

     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.

2. (mathematics) A subscript.
3. (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

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

使用する際の注意点

• The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.

等位語

派生語

参考

• Category:English suffixes

動詞

suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)

1. (transitive, with to) To append (something) to the end of something else.
   • 1882, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, page 121:

     [...] by suffixing the ending -or to collaborat-, the stem of collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together with.

2. (transitive, with with) To cause (something) to be appended with something else at its end.
   • 2013, Case, Scope, and Binding, page 53:

     [...] by suffixing the verb with the gerundive suffix [...]

3. (intransitive) To treat or use as a suffix.

関連する語

Further reading

• suffix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia