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English

Etymology

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigere (“to fasten in”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (US) IPA^(key): /??nf?ks/

Verb

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Verb

infix (third-person singular simple present infixes, present participle infixing, simple past and past participle infixed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

   to infix a sting, spear, or dart

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] in her eye I find

     A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,

     The shadow of myself form’d in her eye:

     Which being but the shadow of your son,

     Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:

     I do protest I never loved myself

     Till now infixed I beheld myself

     Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.

   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight’s Tale, from Chaucer, Book 1, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 11,^[2]

     The fatal Dart a ready Passage found,

     And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10, p. 100,^[3]

     Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or flying about infix their stings in him.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 41,^[4]

     Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.

2. (transitive) To instill.
3. (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

Translations

Noun

infix (plural infixes)

1. (linguistics) A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as -bloody- in English.
2. (linguistics, proscribed) A morpheme that always appears between other morphemes in a word, such as -i- and -o- in English.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• infix notation

See also

• postfix
• infix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fixin'

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nfixus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im?fiks/

Noun

infix m (plural infixos)

1. (linguistics) infix

Old Occitan

Adjective

infix (feminine infixa)

1. stuck, broken

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French infixe, from Latin infixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in?fiks]

Noun

infix n (plural infixe)

1. infix

Declension

Related terms

• afix
• prefix
• sufix

Swedish

Noun

infix n

1. (linguistics) infix

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffixum (“suffix”), from sub (“under, beneath”) + fixus, perfect passive participle of figere (“to fasten, fix”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?s?f?ks/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?s?f?ks/, /s??f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

suffix (plural suffixes)

1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

   Synonym: (narrow sense) affix

   Antonym: prefix

   Hypernym: (broad sense) affix

2. (mathematics) A subscript.
3. (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

Usage notes

• The plural suffices occasionally appears (including in one educational publication), but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Category:English suffixes

Verb

suffix (third-person singular simple present suffixes, present participle suffixing, simple past and past participle suffixed)

1. (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• suffix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia