libfix

English

Coined by American linguist Arnold Zwicky from lib(erated) +‎ -fix.

Examples
-gate ← Watergate -nap ← kidnap franken- ← Frankenstein -holic ← alcoholic -thon ← walkathon ← marathon -rama ← panorama

libfix (plural libfixes)

(linguistics) An affix that has been extracted from an existing word.
- 2019, Antonio Bartolini, Roberto Cippitani, Valentina Colcelli, editors, Dictionary of Statuses within EU Law […] , Springer, →ISBN, footnote 12, page 324:
  The word ‘preneur’ is considered as a neologism or a libfix, identifying people that exercise particular economic activities, such as: (1) a mompreneur […]