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	What is a suffix?
		A suffix is an affix that is attached to the end of a root or stem.
		The past tense suffix -ed attaches to the end of the stem walk to form the past tense verb walked.
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsASuffix.htm (74 words)

	The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 1996. Page 248
		It comes from the Greek noun suffix -ismos and means roughly “the act, state, or theory of.” Nouns that end in -ism often have related verbs that end in -ize (criticism/criticize), related agent nouns that end in -ist (optimism/optimist), and related adjectives that end in -istic (optimistic).
		The suffix -ist, which comes from the Greek suffix -istes, forms agent nouns, that is, nouns that denote someone who does something.
		The suffix -less comes from the Old English suffix -leas, from the word leas, meaning “without.” In Old English and Middle English, -less was often used to convey the negative or opposite of words ending in -ful, as in careful/careless and fearful/fearless.
	www.bartleby.com /64/pages/page248.html (546 words)

	Suffix Trees
		Note that a substring is a prefix of a suffix.
		A Suffix Tree is a data-structure that allows many problems on strings (sequences of characters) to be solved quickly.
		Suffix Trees can be used to solve a large number of string problems that occur in text-editing, free-text search, computational biology, and other application areas.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/Tree/Suffix (1263 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of the suffix "-age"?
		The English suffix comes from French noun-forming suffix -age, which in turn comes from the Latin noun-forming suffix -aticum, which in turn comes from the Latin adjective-forming suffix -aticus, which in turn was originally Greek.
		The Latin noun-forming suffix -aticum is from the neuter form of the adjective-forming suffix -aticus, which was much more common than -aticum.
		The suffix -aticus too has entered French as -age by the same evolutionary process that acted on -aticum.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/msuffixage.html (923 words)

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