a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative (e.g. -ation, -fy, -ing, -itis)

for the last few decades we've appended the suffix ‘gate’ to basically any scandal

a range of prefixes and suffixes can be attached to both verbs and nouns

append (something), especially as a suffix

it is mandatory that ‘Limited Liability Partnership/LLP’ is suffixed to the name