infix

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

Noun

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɪks/

• Audio (US) - noun

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Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɪks/, /ˈɪnfɪks/

• Audio (US) - verb

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• Rhymes: -ɪks

infix (third-person singular simple present infixes, present participle infixing, simple past and past participle infixed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

   to infix a sting, spear, or dart

   • c. 1596, 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 606515358, [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 228732415:

     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, 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 57395299:

     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.

2. (transitive) To instill.
3. (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

infix (plural infixes)

1. (linguistics) A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as -bloody- in English.
2. (linguistics, proscribed) A morpheme that always appears between other morphemes in a word, such as -i- and -o- in English (i.e. an interfix).

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

• infix notation

• anastomosis
• postfix
• infix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• infix at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “infix”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “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.
• What is a Infix, glossary.sil.org

• fixin'

Borrowed from Latin īnfixus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /imˈfiks/

infix m (plural infixos)

1. (linguistics) infix

infix (feminine infixa)

1. stuck, broken

Borrowed from French infixe, from Latin infixus.

• IPA^(key): [inˈfiks]

infix n (plural infixe)

1. infix

• afix
• prefix
• sufix

infix n

1. (linguistics) infix