prefixoid

English

Examples
wheel in wheelchair and wheelwell

Etymology

From prefix +‎ -oid, coined c. 1966 by Yakov Malkiel.

Noun

prefixoid (plural prefixoids)

1. (linguistics) A wordinitial segment that does not have all characteristics of a prefix.

Hypernyms

• affixoid

Coordinate terms

• suffixoid

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類前缀

• Czech: prefixoid (cs) m
• Estonian: prefiksoid
• Finnish: prefiksoidi
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Präfixoid (de) n, Pseudopräfix n
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: prefiksoid m
• Romanian: prefixoid (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: префиксоид
• Slovak: prefixoid m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• combining form

Romanian

Etymology

From prefix +‎ -oid.

Noun

prefixoid n (plural prefixoide)

1. prefixoid

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	prefixoid	prefixoidul		prefixoide	prefixoidele
genitive-dative	prefixoid	prefixoidului		prefixoide	prefixoidelor
vocative	prefixoidule			prefixoidelor