What is the correct term for the Jr., Sr. II, III, IV, etc. at the end of some peoples’ names? Several sources call it a ‘suffix’ but that doesn’t seem right. I know there is a more correct term, but what is it?
Likewise, what is the correct term for the Mr., Mrs. or Miss used before a name? It’s not your ‘title’ as Dr. would be. What’s the right word here?
Help!
In the land of mailing lists, which I am all too familiar with thanks to certain parts of my job, Ms., Mr., Mrs. etc. are called “prefixes”, and “suffix” is indeed the term for Jr., III, IV, etc. There might be less mundane terms for both, but I’ve never heard them.
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Mr., Ms., Dr., are all forms of ADDRESS. Is that the word you were looking for? (Can’t recall term for “suffixes”)
As in, "Please addresss her, now, as MS., not MRS.,
I’m not sure that you want to use it, but you may have been thinking of the term honorific.
Tom~
I have usually seen Mr., Mrs., etc., described as titles, and Jr., Sr., etc., described as generational qualifiers.
Russell
These are called courtesy titles.
I am sorry this doesn’t really relate but I wanted to brag of my ancestry.
I am Robert Price IV
“Whenever a man hears it
he is young, and Nature
is in her spring;
whenever he hears it, it
is a new world and a free
country, and the gates of
heaven are not shut
against him”
–Thoreau, on
the song of the wood thrush