Associations to the word «Suffix»

Wiktionary

SUFFIX, noun. One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
SUFFIX, noun. (mathematics) A subscript.
SUFFIX, verb. (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
SUFFIX TREE, noun. (computing) (of a string) a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string

Dictionary definition

SUFFIX, noun. An affix that is added at the end of the word.
SUFFIX, verb. Attach a suffix to; "suffix words".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky