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.
- 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:
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
to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in
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
- (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
Translations
morpheme inserted into word
- Afrikaans: infiks, tussenvoegsel
- Armenian: միջածանց (hy) (miǰacancʻ)
- Breton: enger m
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: infix (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 中綴/中缀 (zh) (zhōngzhuì)
- Czech: infix m, vpona f
- Dutch: tussenvoegsel (nl) n, infix (nl) n
- Esperanto: enafikso
- Finnish: infiksi (fi), sisäliite (fi)
- French: infixe (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Infix (de) n
- Greek: επένθημα n (epénthima)
- Japanese: 挿入辞 (そうにゅうじ, sōnyūji), 接中辞 (せっちゅうじ, setchūji)
- Khmer: អាគម (km) (ʔaakum)
- Korean: 삽입사 (sabipsa)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ناوگِر (nawgir)
- Northern Kurdish: navbendik (ku), navgir (ku)
- Persian: میانوند (miyân-vand)
- Polish: infiks (pl) m, wrostek (pl) m
- Portuguese: infixo (pt) m
- Romanian: infix (ro) n
- Russian: и́нфикс (ru) m (ínfiks)
- Spanish: interfijo (es) m, infijo (es) m
- Swahili: kiambishi kati
- Swedish: infix (sv) n
- Tagalog: gitlapi (tl)
- Turkish: orta ek, iç ek (tr)
- Vietnamese: trung tố (vi)
- Welsh: mewnddodiad m
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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.
Noun
infix n (plural infixe)
- infix
Declension
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indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
indefinite articulation |
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nominative/accusative |
(un) infix |
infixul |
(niște) infixe |
infixele |
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(unui) infix |
infixului |
(unor) infixe |
infixelor |
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infixule |
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