Meanings
nouncircumfixation (usually uncountable, plural circumfixations)
plural circumfixations
- uncountableusuallyThe morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.
As we have just seen, the encoding is quite versatile. In fact, it is not even limited to describing reduplicative patterns alone but can also handle infixations, circumfixations and truncations.
Institute for German Linguistics, Marburg University
1999 November 19, Markus Walther, “Alternative method: Lexical transducer plus intelligent copy module”, in One-Level Prosodic Morphology (Marburger Arbeiten zur Linguistik [Marburg Studies in Linguistics]; 1), Marburg: Institut fur Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg [Institute for German Linguistics, Marburg University], →OCLC, page 57
Origin
- Ancient Greekκίρκος (kírkos)
- Latincircus
- Latincircum
- Latincircum-
- Englishcircum-
- Englishfixation
- Englishcircumfixation
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APA
circumfixation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumfixation
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“circumfixation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumfixation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circumfixation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumfixation.
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