postfix

[ verb pohst-fiks, pohst-fiks; noun pohst-fiks ]

verb (used with object)

1. to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.

noun

1. something postfixed.
2. a suffix.

postfix

verb

1. tr to add or append at the end of something; suffix

noun

1. See suffix
   a less common word for suffix

Other Words From

• post·fixal post·fixi·al adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of postfix¹

1795–1805; post- + -fix, modeled on prefix

Example Sentences

And it will have to be a prefix, not a postfix; for what I may call the syntax of glyph formation must follow that of the speech.

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