English Explanatory Dictionary

parasynthesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed.
  2. The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.

Word forms

parasynthesis parasyntheses

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρασύνθεσις (parasúnthesis).

Derived words

parasynthetic

Translations

Catalan: parasíntesi French: parasynthèse Galician: parasíntese German: Dekompositum German: Parasynthetum Greek: παρασύνθεση Hungarian: paraszintézis Italian: parasintesi Polish: parasynteza Portuguese: parassíntese Spanish: parasíntesis
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