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Konfix n. (lat. configere ›zusammenfügen‹) ➝ Gebundenes ➝ Grundmorphem, das nur in Kombination mit anderen ➝ Morphemen vorkommt. K kommen vor als ➝ Ableitungsbasis, z.B. {fanat-} infanat., Fanatiker, als ➝ Kompositionsglied, z.B. {bio-, -nom} in Bioladen, Agronom, oder in beiden Verwendungen, z.B. {therm-} in Thermostat, thermisch, Thermalbad. Der Begriff wird meist auf den Bereich der ➝ Lehnwortbildung beschränkt.
Hartmut Günther: Konfix. In: Metzler Lexikon der Sprache (ed Helmut Glück). CD-ROM 2004
Confix refers to that group of bound morphemes which behave like bases and can thus be classified neither as bases nor as affixes, e.g., phil, therm, polit.
From the english abstract of Hilke Elsen: Deutsche Konfixe. in: Deutsche Sprache. ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR THEORIE PRAXIS DOKUMENTATION Im Auftrag des Instituts für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim 33.Jahrgang 2005, 133 (Konfix is here translated to engl. confix, likely supposing, there is no common English use of "confix")
