infix
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.Examples: "to infix a sting, spear, or dart"; "[…] 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."; "The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:"archaictransitive
2. (transitive) To instill.transitive
3. (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.transitive
noun (English)
1. (some authors when describing agglutinative languages, otherwise dated) A prefix that is not at the beginning of a word, such as the con- of reconcile, or a suffix that is not at the end of a word, such as the -al of nationality.Examples: "The infix position contains (pronominal) object markers, showing agreement with the object(s), which might be one or more noun phrases following the verb, or a foregoing or previously mentioned object marking."; "[…] but the second example contravenes all the rules, as the negative infix should NEVER precede any Set 2 affix present in the complex."; "[…] at least in languages, like Swahili, which exhibit morphologically different tense/aspect infixes in affirmative and negative clauses[…]"
2. (Bantu linguistics, dated) A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.dated
3. (proscribed) Synonym of interfix.Synonyms: interfixproscribed
Definition source: Wiktionary