confix

English

Etymology

From Latin configo or con- +‎ fix.

Noun

confix (plural confixes)

1. (linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.
   • 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, “Tsou”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar‎^[1], page 265:

     As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu.

2. (linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix.
   • 1982, Igor Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk, Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, page 84:

     22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.

Synonyms

• (prefix-suffix unit): circumfix, ambifix

Coordinate terms

• (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix

Verb

confix (third-person singular simple present confixes, present participle confixing, simple past and past participle confixed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
   • a. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:

     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!