combining forms

A form of combining form — A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of combining form

    Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.

    2007, P. H. Matthews, “combining form”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64
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