confix

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Etymology edit

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Noun edit

confix (plural confixes)

(linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
- 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, “Tsou”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar‎^[1], page 265:
  As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu.
(linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
- 1982, Igor Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk, Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, page 84:
  22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.

Synonyms edit

(prefix-suffix unit): circumfix, ambifix

Coordinate terms edit

(types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix

Verb edit

confix (third-person singular simple present confixes, present participle confixing, simple past and past participle confixed)

(obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
- a. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:
  But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife. As this is true, / Let me in safety raise me from my knees; / Or else for ever be confixed here, / A marble monument!