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What (who) is affix - definition
MORPHEME THAT IS ATTACHED TO A WORD STEM TO FORM A NEW WORD
Prefix morpheme; Affixion; Affixation; Affixes; Affix letters; Affix letter; Adfix
affix
v. 1) to attach something to real estate in a permanent way, including planting trees and shrubs, constructing a building, or adding to existing improvements. The key is that affixed items are permanent and cannot be picked up and moved away like a washing machine. 2) to sign or seal, as affix a signature or a seal.
affix
¦ verb ?'f?ks attach or fasten to something else.
¦ noun 'af?ks Grammar an addition to the base form or stem of a word that modifies its meaning or creates a new word.
Derivatives
affixation noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. affixer or med. L. affixare, frequentative of L. affigere, from ad- 'to' + figere 'to fix'.
affix
v. (D; tr.) to affix to (to affix one's signature to a document)
Wikipedia
Affix
In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed. They are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes. Affixation is the linguistic process that speakers use to form different words by adding morphemes at the beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation) of words.
Examples of use of affix
1. He recently bought 10 padlocks to affix to tanks that fuel the diesel motors irrigating his fields.
2. But there was no effort to affix rhetorical horns on his head, as happened to Judge Bork.
3. Naylor‘s goal is to fight off the senator‘s proposal to affix a skull and crossbones on every cigarette pack.
4. The contrast tells you everything about the passive, eclectic Kylie: she is whatever label you affix to her.
5. Stewart, whose husband was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, has sought federal government approval to affix the pentacle to the Veterans‘ Memorial Wall in Nevada.