Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SUFFIX
suffix, postfix
(noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word
suffix
(verb) attach a suffix to; “suffix words”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
suffix (plural suffixes)
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Synonym: affix (narrow sense)
Antonym: prefix
Hypernym: affix (broad sense)
(mathematics) A subscript.
(computing) A final segment of a string of characters.
Usage notes
• The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.
Coordinate terms
• (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, suffix, suprafix
Verb
suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)
(transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
Source: Wiktionary
Suf"fix, n. Etym: [L. suffixus, p.p. of suffigere to fasten on, to affix; sub under + figere to fix: cf. F. suffixe. See Fix.]
1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
2. (Math.)
Definition: A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
Suf*fix", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffixing.]
Definition: To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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