postformative

A formative element at the end.

Adjective

  1. Forming or affecting something that comes before.
    • The phenomenon of Berber verbs which are marked for person with both a preformative and a postformative affix […] finds a formally exact pendant in Canaanite, where there is one occurrence of the phenomenon in the Bible...
  2. Occurring after the formation (chiefly written post-formative, said in Islamic studies of the period following the Golden Age of Islam 786–861 CE).
    • It seems that Western observers of the Near East—and, in addition, a large percentage of the intellectuals of the Islamic world—can hardly imagine a society in which a struggle for truth does not continuously rage. But...

Origin

From post- (prefix meaning ‘after’) + formative, modelled after preformative.

Related

postformation preformative

Noun

  1. A formative element at the end.

Forms

postformatives