interfix

interfix - English

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fix

Noun

interfix (plural interfixes)

  1. (linguistic morphology) An empty morph (meaningless morph) inserted between two morphemes in the process of word formation, such as English -i- and -o-.
  2. (linguistic morphology) A transfix.
  3. (computing, information retrieval, dated) An association link, a device to group multiple words or concepts.

Coordinate terms

Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: interfix m
  • Danish: bindebogstav (da) c, interfiks (da) n
  • Dutch: invoegsel (nl) n, interfix (nl) n
  • Finnish: interfiksi
  • French: interfixe (fr) m
  • Georgian: ინტერფიქსი (inṭerpiksi)
  • German: Fugenelement (de) n
  • Kurdish:
    • Central Kurdish: نێوانگِر (nêwangir)
  • Macedonian: интерфикс m (interfiks)
  • Norwegian: fugemorfem n, interfiks n
  • Persian: میان‌وند (miyân-vand)
  • Polish: międzyrostek (pl) m
  • Russian: интерфикс (ru) m (interfiks) (formal), соединительный аффикс f (sojedinitelʹnyj affiks) (formal)
  • Spanish: interfijo (es) m
  • Swedish: fogemorfem (sv) n, interfix (sv) n
  • Udmurt: висӥтэт (visitet)

Verb

interfix (third-person singular simple present interfixes, present participle interfixing, simple past and past participle interfixed)

  1. (engineering, transitive) To attach or anchor (two or more parts) together.
  2. (linguistic morphology, transitive) To insert (an interfix) between two morphemes.

Derived terms

interfix - Czech

Noun

interfix m inan

  1. interfix

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Meaning and Definition of interfix
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