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confix en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin configo or con- + fix.

Meanings

1. An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.
   • As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu. 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, “Tsou”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, page 265:
2. (rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix.
   • 22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root. 1982, Igor Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk, Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, page 84:

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Synonyms

ambifix (prefix-suffix unit) · circumfix (prefix-suffix unit)

confix en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin configo or con- + fix.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state.
   • But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife. As this is true, / Let me in safety raise me from my knees; / Or else for ever be confixed here, / A marble monument! a.''' 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:

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