Suffix in the word "competition"

[bheemaramu]

Could you please tell me the suffix of the word
COMPETITION

 

[emsr2d2]

Could you please tell me what the the suffix is of in the word "competition"?

COMPETITION Don't write in block capitals. It's the online equivalent of shouting.

Welcome to the forum.

Please note my corrections and comments above, and that I have changed your thread title.

Your member profile shows that you are an English teacher. What do you think the suffix might be, if there is one? What prompted you to ask this question?

 

[Tarheel]

suffix in American English
1. a letter, syllable, or group of syllables added at the end of a word or word base to change its meaning, give it grammatical function, or form a new word (Ex.: -ish in smallish, -ed in walked, -ness in darkness) 2. anything added to the end of something else.
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[Tarheel]

That's odd, isn't it. All those definitions say the suffix comes at the end of a word. Are all of those dictionaries wrong?

 

[emsr2d2]

@Tarheel I'm sorry but I'm completely baffled by both of your posts. What prompted you to add that huge list of links and what makes you think they're all wrong? I can't see any connection between your two responses and the original question.

 

[Tarheel]

No. You said that definition is wrong. You deleted my post.

 

[Rover_KE]

Your earlier post said that a suffix is always the last syllable of a sentence.

I should have saved you a lot of trouble by editing that to ‘… of a word’.

 

[Tarheel]

All those definitions back me up. Every single one.

 

[Tarheel]

Your earlier post said that a suffix is always the last syllable of a sentence.

I should have saved you a lot of trouble by editing that to ‘… of a word’.

No, it's not the last syllable of a sentence. That makes no sense. (I didn't mean that at all.)

My post simply disappeared. If I had gotten a chance to see that it contained an error I would have fixed it myself.

The TION suffix is at the end of quite a few words. (See below.)

affliction
benediction
condition
competition
condition
contraction
ambition
deduction
fruition
graduation
graduation
induction
junction
addiction
jurisdiction
ammunition
gumption
reduction
suspicion
erection
collection

and so forth

 

[emsr2d2]

Not only is a suffix not always the last syllable of a sentence (as Tarheel's deleted post said), but it's also not always the last syllable of a word. Most suffixes have one or two syllables but a few ("-ology", for example) have three.
All we can say is that suffixes always come at the end of a word. The suffix in question here (-tion) happens to have one syllable.

It would have been good if everyone could have waited for the OP to answer my two questions in post #2 before piling in with the answer and the ensuing misunderstandings!