affix
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French affixer or Medieval Latin (1533) affixare, frequentative of Latin affigere (past participle affixus), from ad- + figere.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
affix (plural affixes)
- That which is affixed; an appendage.
- (linguistics) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; formerly applied only to suffixes (also called postfixes), the term as now used comprises prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and suprafixes.
- (mathematics) The complex number
associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates
.
Antonyms [edit]
- (linguistics: bound morpheme added to a word’s stem): nonaffix
Hyponyms [edit]
Coordinate terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
that which is affixed
linguistics: a bound morpheme added to a word’s stem
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mathematics: the complex number associated to a point
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Verb [edit]
affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)
- To attach.
Translations [edit]
to attach
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Medieval Latin (1533) affixare, frequentative of Latin affigere (past participle affixus), from ad- + figere.
Noun [edit]
affix n (plural affixen, diminutive affixje)
- Affix (linguistics and mathematics)
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
affix n
- an affix
associated to the point in the
.