Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in. · To instill. · To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation. · 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. · A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes. · Synonym of interfix.
Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).
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