Back-formation
We form words with back-formation when we remove part of a word, usually something which we think is a suffix (or occasionally a prefix). We do this commonly when we form verbs from nouns. …
suffix
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsʌf.ɪks/ us /ˈsʌf.ɪks/
language specialized
to add a letter or group of letters to the end of a word to make a new word:
suffixed with"Generalize" is a verb because it is suffixed with "-ize" and "generalization" is a noun because it is suffixed with "-tion".
suffixed toIn Arabic, possessive pronouns are suffixed to nouns that have the structural status of possessed nouns.
to use a word after the word for something, for example to describe it :
suffix something with somethingIt's difficult to write "pensions" these days without suffixing the word with "mis-selling".
to add a group of numbers, letters, or symbols to the end of an internet address or piece of computer code:
suffixed withThe program searches the hard drive for files that are suffixed with .jpeg or .jpg.
The base URL is suffixed with a unique numeric code.
to add something to another thing:
suffixed toThe data has been collected online and the anonymous texts have been suffixed to this report.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
-athon
affix
affixation
agglutinate
agglutinative
analytic
contraction
interfix
ion
ism
libfix
monomorphemic
monosyllabic
morpheme
polysyllabic
syllabification
syllabify
synthetic
that'd
that'll

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Augmenting and supplementing
Ends and endings

suffix | American Dictionary

suffix
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsʌf·ɪks/
grammar
a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word:
In the word "quickly," "-ly" is a suffix meaning "in the specified manner."

Examples of suffix

suffix
Let us now consider why it suffices to recognize just one verbal suffix that forms participles.
Such changes are lexically determined and not restricted to grammatical suffixes and particles.
This is probably due to the poverty of derivational suffixes in verbal morphology in both (types of) languages.
If sensitivity to sound sequences applies to derivational suffixes, we might also expect to see differences among individual suffixes based on suffix frequency.
English uses the -s suffix on verbs when the subject is singular in the third person, but not first or second person.
Twenty-one of the nouns belonged to the group of transparent nouns, which allow gender assignment on the basis of suffixes and pseudosuffixes.
That individual affixes must somehow be identified as prefixes or suffixes on a language-particular basis comes as no surprise.
Both of these suffixes are obligatory, and show respect for those higher up on the social-stratification ladder.
For this verb, the perfect suffix /-a/ must be used, regardless of the number of surface vowels in the word.
All suffixed monosyllabic nouns must have long vowels.
These suffixes are also used alone and with prefixes in other morphological constructions.
Next, an inventory of the most common suffixes compatible with the chosen verbs was compiled.
Only two words fell out of the range exhibited by the individual suffix types.
This argument concerns derivational morphology, which is sometimes realised as a prefix or suffix.
Since regular suffixes may follow certain unstressable suffixes, a loop must be introduced, as shown below.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.