A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
A subscript.
A final segment of a string of characters.
The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
To append (something) to the end of something else.
Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
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