combining forms
English
editNoun
edit- plural of combining form
- 2007, P. H. Matthews, “combining form”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:
- Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:combining form.