Words similar to suffix

Example sentences for: suffix

How can you use “suffix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Primerole probably derives from the Old French primier `first,' with the diminutive suffix - ole , implying smallness.
No sense of irony is needed to appreciate the name Malfatto (male badly, fatto made, put together), however, or the names Gobbi ( gobbo hunchback), Porcelli (piglets), Boccioni (bocca mouth plus the augmentative suffix, yielding big mouth), Capostagno (capo head, stagno tin), Sozzi (from the Sicilian sozzu filthy), or Moccio (snot or slime).
Recently, however, new systems based on suffix trees, such as RepeatMatch (based on MUMmer [ 11]) and REPuter [ 12, 13], have overcome this size limitation, at least for biologically realistic input sizes.
Among the several types of doubles in English, a rather large group ends both parts with the diminutive suffix - y or - ie . The group seems also to contain two similar sub-groups that produce opposite effects: those that diminish size and express endearment or amusement and those that diminish stature or worth and express disapproval or contempt.
One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .