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Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- + fix.
affix (plural affixes)
- That which is affixed; an appendage.
- Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
- (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
- (linguistic morphology, broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.
- (mathematics) The complex number associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates .
- (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
- (types of affixes): adfix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
- clitic
that which is affixed
- Bulgarian: прибавка (bg) (pribavka), придатък (bg) (pridatǎk)
- Catalan: afix (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: afix (cs)
- Dutch: affix (nl) n, aanhangsel (nl) n
- Finnish: lisä (fi), lisäke (fi), uloke (fi)
- French: affixe (fr) f
- German: Anhang (de) m, Anhängsel (de) n
- Greek: προσθήκη (el) f (prosthíki)
- Japanese: 付属物 (ふぞくぶつ, fuzokubutsu)
- Kyrgyz: кошулма (koşulma)
- Portuguese: afixo (pt) m
- Romanian: afix (ro) n
- Russian: добавле́ние (ru) n (dobavlénije), дополне́ние (ru) n (dopolnénije), прида́ток (ru) n (pridátok)
- Serbo-Croatian: додатак m, dodatak (sh) m
- Swahili: kiambishi (sw)
- Tagalog: maylapi (tl)
- Yoruba: àfòmọ́
linguistics: a bound morpheme added to a word’s stem
- Afrikaans: affiks
- Arabic: أَفِكْس (ʔafiks)
- Armenian: ածանց (hy) (acancʻ)
- Azerbaijani: şəkilçi (az)
- Bulgarian: наставка (bg) (nastavka)
- Catalan: afix (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: afix (cs) m
- Danish: affiks
- Dutch: affix (nl) n
- Esperanto: afikso
- Finnish: affiksi (fi), liite (fi)
- French: affixe (fr) f
- Georgian: აფიქსი sg (apiksi)
- German: Affix (de) n, Zusatzsilbe f
- Greek: παράθημα (el) n (paráthima)
- Hebrew: מוּסָפִית (he) m (musafít)
- Hungarian: toldalék (hu)
- Icelandic: aðskeyti
- Indonesian: imbuhan (id)
- Italian: confisso (it) m
- Japanese: 接辞 (ja) (せつじ, setsuji)
- Kazakh: қосымша (kk) (qosymşa)
- Khmer: ផ្នត់ (km) (phnott)
- Korean: 접사(接辭) (ko) (jeopsa)
- Kyrgyz: кошумча (ky) (koşumca)
- Latvian: dēklis m (dated)
- Norwegian: affiks (no) n
- Polish: formant m, zrostek (pl) m, afiks (pl) m
- Portuguese: afixo (pt) m
- Romanian: afix (ro) n
- Russian: а́ффикс (ru) m (áffiks)
- Scottish Gaelic: leasachan m
- Serbo-Croatian: афикс m, afiks (sh) m
- Slovene: pona f
- Spanish: afijo (es) m
- Swedish: affix (sv) n
- Tagalog: panlapi (tl)
- Telugu: ప్రత్యయము (te) (pratyayamu)
- Turkish: ek (tr)
- Vietnamese: phụ tố (vi) (輔素)
- Volapük: yümot (vo)
- Walloon: stitchete (wa) f (neologism)
- Welsh: dodiad m
affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)
- (transitive) To attach.
- Synonyms: join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
to affix a stigma to a person
to affix ridicule or blame to somebody
- (transitive) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
to affix a syllable to a word
to affix a seal to an instrument
to affix one’s name to a writing
- (transitive) To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
eyes affixed upon the ground
1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty:
Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...
to attach
- Bulgarian: прикрепям (bg) (prikrepjam), закрепвам (bg) (zakrepvam)
- Dutch: vastmaken (nl) aan (nl), aanhangen (nl)
- German: befestigen (de), anheften (de), anbringen (de)
- Greek: κολλάω (el) (kolláo), κολλώ (el) (kolló)
- Ottoman Turkish: طاقمق (takmak)
- Portuguese: afixar (pt)
- Russian: прикрепля́ть (ru) (prikrepljátʹ)
- Spanish: fijar (es), pegar (es)
Ultimately from Latin affixum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
affix n (plural affixen, diminutive affixje n)
- Affix (linguistics and mathematics)
- → Indonesian: afiks
affix n
- an affix
Declension of affix | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | affix | affixet | affix | affixen |
Genitive | affix | affixets | affix | affixens |