parasíntesis
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρασύνθεσις (parasúnthesis).
Noun
parasíntesis f (plural parasíntesis)
- (linguistics) parasynthesis (the formation of words by a simultaneous combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in tierraplanista, mileurista)
- (linguistics) parasynthesis (the formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in amueblar)
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Further reading
- “parasíntesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28