EGAVE

infix

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
    to infix a sting, spear, or dart
  2. verb To instill.
  3. verb To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
  4. noun An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
  7. noun Synonym of interfix.

Similar words

insert enter introduce enfix fixe inset perfix affix transfix interfix

Often followed by

notation expression operator operators expressions to form is and

Word family

infixation infixations infixed infixes infixing

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