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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | © Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

ENDING. A grammatical or derivational element at the end of a WORD: -s added to horse to form the plural horses, added to sell to form the third-person singular sells; -ity added to central to form centrality. Elements like -s are often referred to as inflectional endings. Elements like -ity may be referred to as derivational endings, but are more commonly known as suffixes. Inflectional endings may or may not be classed as suffixes. See CLASSICAL ENDING, INFLECTION.

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