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The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends.
The suffix used to form the plural of most words; as in roads, elfs, sides, accounts.
An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.
A suffix with the same meaning as -ide. See -ide.
A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.
A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.
A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.
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v. i.
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
n.
A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
n.
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
imp. & p. p.
of Suffix
v. t.
To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
n.
Suffixion.
v. i.
Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Suffix
n.
The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
n.
A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
a.
Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.
adv.
An inseparable prefix, or particle, signifying not; in-; non-. In- is prefixed mostly to words of Latin origin, or else to words formed by Latin suffixes; un- is of much wider application, and is attached at will to almost any adjective, or participle used adjectively, or adverb, from which it may be desired to form a corresponding negative adjective or adverb, and is also, but less freely, prefixed to nouns. Un- sometimes has merely an intensive force; as in unmerciless, unremorseless.
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