infix

Meanings

1. To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
2. To instill.
3. To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

1. An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
2. A prefix that is not at the beginning of a word, such as the con- of reconcile, or a suffix that is not at the end of a word, such as the -al of nationality.
3. A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
4. Synonym of interfix.

Etymology

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).