confix
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English
Etymology
From Latin configo or con- + fix.
Noun
confix (plural confixes)
- (linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.
- (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
Coordinate terms
- (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
Verb
confix (third-person singular simple present confixes, present participle confixing, simple past and past participle confixed)
- (transitive, 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!