Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To attach. · To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to. · To fix or fasten figuratively.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix. · That which is affixed; an appendage. · The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b). · Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere). By surface analysis, af- + fix.
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- Borrowed-form mentionaffixusla
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