🔤 Word ending part ➕ Operator after number ➕ To add at end

to postfix

7.6

Add a letter or symbol to the end of a word

verb
/ˈpoʊstˌfɪks/

: agregar un sufijo

To form the plural, simply postfix an 's' to the noun.

Examples

She postfixed the word 'happy' with 'ness'.
In some programming languages, you can postfix operators to variables.
The editor instructed her to postfix the citation with the correct year.
You can postfix the letter 's' to make it plural.
To form the plural, simply postfix an 's' to the noun.
In some programming languages, you can postfix operators to variables.
The editor instructed her to postfix the citation with the correct year.

Synonyms

to suffix

vsto postfix

5.3

Add letters to the end of a word to make a new word or change its form

adds any letter, symbol, or element to the end of a word or item

Compounds

postfix notation

Specialized

8.3

A way of writing math expressions without parentheses where each sign comes after the numbers

Surface Forms

postfix infinitive

postfixed past

postfixed past participle

postfixing present participle

postfixes third person singular

Morphology

postfix = fix (transparent) = post + fix

The meaning is directly compositional: 'post-' means after or at the end, and 'fix' means attach, so the word means to attach something at the end.

Etymology

The verb postfix uses post- 'after' and fix 'attach', so to postfix something is to add or 'attach after' it, as when you add an 's' to make a noun plural.