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Prefixe vs Suffix - What's the difference?

prefixe | suffix |

As verbs the difference between prefixe and suffix

is that prefixe is obsolete spelling of prefix while suffix is to append (something) to the end of something else.

As a noun suffix is

one or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

prefixe

English

Verb

  • *mid-15th century , Letters of Margaret of Anjou , Number 90, p. 123:
  • *:We, desiryng a final conclusion thereof, to reste and quiete of oure said tenants, praye yow hertely tht ye will, atte reverance of us, prefixe and set a day to mete with oure counseil
  • * 15th century? , in The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery (1840) by James Aungier
  • *:And the sustres, like as they by them selfe procede to the eleccion of the abbes and chese her, so they schal by themselfe prefixe the day that thei schal procede to the eleccion.
  • *1576 , on a tombstone transcribed in A survey of the cities of London and Westminster (1733), Book III, p. 684:
  • *:In Shrop?hire'' at the ''Mindtowne'' borne, / the Time we here prefixe , / And dyed the Seventh of ''February'', / in ''Anno Seventy Sixe.
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    suffix

    English

    (wikipedia suffix)

    Noun

    (es)
  • One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
  • The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
  • (mathematics) A subscript.
  • Usage notes

    * The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard Latin plural.

    Coordinate terms

    * (affixes)

    Derived terms

    * inflectional suffix * derivational suffix * suffixal * suffixation

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (es)
  • to append (something) to the end of something else