Ambifix
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ambifix is a noun meaning (computing) A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
Meaning
(computing) A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) A bound morpheme that can be used either as a prefix or suffix.
- (linguistics) A circumfix.
- (grammar) To affix an ambifix to (a word).
Example Sentences
These markers are suffixed, prefixed, infixed and even at times ambifixed.
As mentioned above, all verbs distinguish dual from non-dual forms; for ambifixing verbs this is encoded on a post-root ‘thematic’ which combines information about dual vs. non-dual and TAM[…]
Examples of such other methods are intercalation, as in Semitic, and what might be called ambifixing, where an affix has two parts, one of which precedes the entire root, while the other follows.
Word Forms
- ambifixes
- ambifixing
- ambifixed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include border, circumfix, suffix, reference, affixoid, grawlix.
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