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What is the noun for suffix?

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suffix
  1. (grammar) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
  2. (mathematics) A subscript.
  3. Synonyms:
suffixhood
  1. (grammar) The state, condition, or qualification of being a suffix.
suffixation
  1. The process of adding a suffix to a word.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The perfective aspect is usually formed from the imperfective either by prefixation or by suffixation.”
      “The use of pseudowords in addition to real words allowed us to assess suffixation without support of lexical knowledge.”
      “This basic aspect, however, could be reversed by morphological devices such as ablaut, suffixation, and reduplication.”
suffixations
  1. plural of suffixation
suffixes
  1. plural of suffix
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Scandinavian languages like Danish and Swedish are almost as poor in conjugational suffixes as English, and yet in some dialects the verb moves.”
      “The main drawback of the Linnean system is that groups must be named with suffixes that denote their rank in this hierarchy.”
      “Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.”
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