A pejorative suffix is a suffix which attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form. Suffix has meanings in linguistics, nomenclature and computer science. ... A diminutive is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment. ...

The pejorative suffix may add the sense of "a despicable example of the preceding", as in Spanish -ejo (see below). It can also convey the sense of "a despicable human having the preceding characteristic"; for instance, as in English -el (see below) or the development of the word cuckold from Old French cocu "cuckoo" + -ald, taken into Anglo-Saxon as cokewald and thus to the modern English word.

Examples of the pejorative suffix:

Basque

-txo ^[1] Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ...

English

-ar, e.g. beggar The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

-ard, e.g. bastard (from Old French bast "pack-saddle", i.e. "child born in a pack-saddle")

-azi, e.g. feminazi (from Nazi)

-aster, e.g. poetaster, philosophaster (via Latin)

-el, e.g. wastrel (from "waste", i.e. "a wasteful person (pej.)")

-ista e.g. fashionista (sometimes used as a more '"playfully" pejorative than others, taken from Sandanista)

-nik, e.g. peacenik, neatnik (via Yiddish or Russian, where it is not necessarily pejorative)

-ass, e.g. dumbass, fatass

Esperanto

-aĉ-, e.g. veteraĉo "foul weather" (from vetero "weather") Look up Esperanto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

French

-ald/-ard/-aud, e.g. salaud "dirty person (from sale "dirt")

Hawaiian

-ā (-wā), e.g. lonoā "gossip" (from lono "news") The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian language that takes its name from that of the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. ...

-ea, e.g. poluea "seasickness" (from polu "wet)

Italian

-accio(a) (or -uccio/a), e.g. boccaccia "ugly mug" (from bocca "mouth")

Latin

-aster, denoting fraudulent resemblance, e.g. patraster "one who plays the father" (from pater "father") Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin)

-ish, e.g. animosh "dog"^[2] Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa or Anishinaabemowin in Eastern Ojibwe syllabics) is the third most commonly spoken Native language in Canada (after Cree and Inuktitut), and the fourth most spoken in North America (behind Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut). ...

Provençal

-asso, e.g. vidasso "wretched life" (from vido "life") Provençal (Provençau in Provençal language) is one of several dialects spoken by a minority of people in southern France and other areas of France and Italy. ...

Russian

-iška (ишка) ^[3]

-uxa (уха), e.g. černuxa, dramatic term for an unrelentingly bleak cinematic style (from čern- "black")

Spanish

-aco(a), e.g. pajarraco "large ugly bird" (from pajaro "bird)

-ejo(a), e.g. lugarejo "podunk town" (from lugar "place")

-ote(a), e.g. discursote "long dull speech" (from discurso "speech")