Suffixes Puns

A list of puns related to "Suffixes"

TIL Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix; tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

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👤︎ u/neffability
📅︎ Jun 02 2020
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[OC] Guess The Pun #47 - Suffix to say... v.redd.it/7nm3i1g5t2k41
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👤︎ u/monarang
📅︎ Mar 01 2020
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What do you get when you put a vest on an alligator?

You get an Investigator!

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👤︎ u/Texgymratdad
📅︎ Sep 29 2020
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It is okay if you don’t know what “prefix” means.

It’s not the end of the word.

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👤︎ u/porichoygupto
📅︎ Jul 14 2019
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The Iliad

The Iliad is called that because Ilium was another name for Troy, and the -ad suffix used to mean “The Story of”. So, if we translated the title, The Iliad should actually be called Troy Story

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👤︎ u/timotab
📅︎ May 03 2019
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