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- Latin · borrowed fromaffixus
- English todayaffix
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere). By surface analysis, af- + fix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
affix
Today it means: A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix. Full definition →
Latin affixus