(linguistics) Of a language, characterised by heavy use of suffixes to create grammatical forms; as opposed to prefixing.

The act by which something is suffixed.

plural of suffix

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suffix

plural of suffixing

(rare) The state or quality of being a suffix.

(computing) (of a string) a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string

(linguistics) A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages.

Synonym of zero suffix

(linguistic morphology) A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a suffix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised suffix to the point that it is inaudible).