combining forms

English

Noun

combining forms

1. plural of combining form
   • 2007, P. H. Matthews, “combining form”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:

     Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.

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