# infix
## English
### Etymology

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).

### Pronunciation
#### Noun

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɪnfɪks/
* Audio (US); “infix” (noun):(file)

#### Verb

* (UK, US) IPA: /ɪnˈfɪks/, /ˈɪnfɪks/
* Audio (US); “infix” (verb):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪks

### Verb

infix (third-person singular simple present infixes, present participle infixing, simple past and past participle infixed)
* (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
    to infix a sting, spear, or dart
** c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:[…] in her eye I find A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, The shadow of myself form’d in her eye: Which being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow: I do protest I never loved myself Till now infixed I beheld myself Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: Book 1, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 11,
    The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:
** 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion‎, part 10, page 100:Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or flying about infix their stings in him.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 41, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.
* (transitive) To instill.
* (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

#### Translations
### Noun

infix (plural infixes)
* (linguistics) An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
* (some authors when describing agglutinative languages, otherwise dated) 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.
** 2008, Derek Nurse, Tense and Aspect in Bantu, →ISBN:The infix position contains (pronominal) object markers, showing agreement with the object(s), which might be one or more noun phrases following the verb, or a foregoing or previously mentioned object marking.
** 2008, George Hewitt, Are Verbs Always What They Seem to Be?‎:[…] but the second example contravenes all the rules, as the negative infix should NEVER precede any Set 2 affix present in the complex.
** 2018, Gloria Cocchi, chapter 5, in Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond, →DOI:[…] at least in languages, like Swahili, which exhibit morphologically different tense/aspect infixes in affirmative and negative clauses […]
** 2023, Bostoen, de Schryver, Guérois & Pacchiarotti, editor, On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar, page 709:The morpheme in question is the reflexive prefix ('infix' in the traditional Bantu terminology).
* (Bantu linguistics, dated) A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
* (linguistics, proscribed) A morpheme that always appears between other morphemes in a word, such as -i- and -o- in English (i.e. an interfix).

#### Coordinate terms

* adfix
* affix
* ambifix
* circumfix
* confix
* disfix
* duplifix
* infix
* interfix
* libfix
* postfix
* prefix
* prefixoid
* simulfix
* suffix
* suffixoid
* suprafix
* transfix

#### Derived terms

* infixal
* infixation
* infixion
* infix notation
* infix operator

#### Translations
### See also

* anastomosis
* postfix
* Category:English infixes

### Further reading

* infix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “infix”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “infix”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “infix”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* “infix”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “infix” (US) / “infix” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
* Eugene E. Loos [et al.], editors (2003), “infix”, in Glossary of Linguistic Terms, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.

### Anagrams

* fixin'

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfixus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [iɱˈfiks]

### Noun

infix m (plural infixos)
* (linguistics) infix

## Old Occitan
### Adjective

infix (feminine infixa)
* stuck, broken

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French infixe, from Latin infixus. Doublet of înfipt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [inˈfiks]

### Noun

infix n (plural infixe)
* infix

#### Related terms

* afix
* prefix
* sufix

## Swedish
### Noun

infix n
* (linguistics) infix