Suffixes คือคำที่ใส่ไว้ท้ายคำรากศัพท์เพื่อช่วยเปลี่ยนความหมายของคำรากศัพท์เดิม (เช่นเดียวกับ prefixes ที่เอาไว้เติมหน้าคำรากศัพท์) ตารางด้านล่างนี้เป็นตัวอย่างในการใช้ Suffixes
Suffix | Meaning | Examples |
-able/-ible | capable of | portable, legible |
-ac/-ic | like/related to | cardiac, Nordic |
-acy | state/quality of being | privacy, legitimacy |
-acious/-icious | full of | gracious, malicious |
-al | related to | logical, philosophical |
-ance/-ence | state/quality of being | maintenance, permanence |
-dom | state/quality of being | freedom, kingdom |
-eer/-er/-or | person who | mountaineer, writer, counsellor |
-escent | becoming, to be | adolescent, fluorescent |
-esque | like/reminiscent of | picturesque, Kafkaesque |
-fy | to make | magnify, electrify |
-iferous | containing, yielding | vociferous, carboniferous |
-ise | make, become | civilise, terrorise |
-ish | having qualities of | hellish, fiendish |
-ism | doctrine, belief, practice | favouritism, communism |
-ist | person who | chemist, florist |
-ity | state/quality of being | ingenuity, oddity |
-less | without | brainless, endless |
-ment | state/quality of being, result of action, process | enjoyment, embankment, abridgement |
-ness | state of being | thinness, loneliness |
-oid | like | celluloid, ovoid |
-ose | full of | adipose, verbose |
-osis | condition | hypnosis, psychosis |
-ous | full of | illustrious, nauseous |
-ship | position held | friendship, membership |
-sion/-tion | state/quality of being | torsion, transition |
-tude | state/quality of being | fortitude, certitude |
-y | characterised by | funny, greedy |
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