infix
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).
Inflected forms:
form: infixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infixed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: infixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to infix a sting, spear, or dart
[…] 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.
The fatal Dart a ready Passage found,
And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:
Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or flying about infix their stings in him.
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.
gloss: To instill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
pos: noun
examples: I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
[…] but the second example contravenes all the rules, as the negative infix should NEVER precede any Set 2 affix present in the complex.
[…] at least in languages, like Swahili, which exhibit morphologically different tense/aspect infixes in affirmative and negative clauses[…]
The morpheme in question is the reflexive prefix ('infix' in the traditional Bantu terminology).
gloss: A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Synonym of interfix.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
Related words: anastomosis
postfix
Derived words: infixal
infixation
infixion
infix notation
infix operator
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: infiks
lang: Afrikaans
word: tussenvoegsel
lang: Albanian
word: brendashtesë
lang: Armenian
word: միջածանց
roman: miǰacancʻ
lang: Breton
word: enger
lang: Catalan
word: infix
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中綴 /中缀
roman: zhōngzhuì
lang: Czech
word: infix
lang: Czech
word: vpona
lang: Dutch
word: tussenvoegsel
lang: Dutch
word: infix
lang: Esperanto
word: enafikso
lang: Finnish
word: infiksi
lang: Finnish
word: sisäliite
lang: French
word: infixe
lang: German
word: Infix
lang: Greek
word: επένθημα
roman: epénthima
lang: Indonesian
word: infiks
lang: Indonesian
word: sisipan
lang: Italian
word: infisso
lang: Japanese
word: 挿入辞
roman: sōnyūji
lang: Japanese
word: 接中辞
roman: setchūji
lang: Khmer
word: អាគម
roman: ʔaakum
lang: Korean
word: 삽입사
roman: sabipsa
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ناوگِر
roman: nawgir
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: navbendik
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: navgir
lang: Persian
word: میانوند
roman: miyân-vand
lang: Polish
word: infiks
lang: Polish
word: wrostek
lang: Portuguese
word: infixo
lang: Romanian
word: infix
lang: Russian
word: и́нфикс
roman: ínfiks
lang: Spanish
word: interfijo
lang: Spanish
word: infijo
lang: Swahili
word: kiambishi kati
lang: Swedish
word: infix
lang: Tagalog
word: gitlapi
lang: Thai
word: อาคม
roman: aa-kom
lang: Turkish
word: orta ek
lang: Turkish
word: iç ek
lang: Vietnamese
word: trung tố
lang: Welsh
word: mewnddodiad