confix

plural confixes

1. human sciencesAn affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.

   As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu.

   2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, “Tsou”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, page 265

2. rarehuman sciencesAn affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix.

   22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.

   1982, Igor Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk, Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, page 84

present singular third person confixes · participle present confixing · participle past confixed · past confixed

1. obsoletetransitiveTo make firm; to fix in a particular place or state.

   But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife. As this is true, / Let me in safety raise me from my knees; / Or else for ever be confixed here, / A marble monument!

   a. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure