infix

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɪks/ / /ɪnˈfɪks/

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

An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
“I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted.”
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.
“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.”
A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
Synonym of interfix.

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

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
“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.”
To instill.
To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.