infix
noun
a morpheme or an entire word that is inserted within the body of another word or element, as Latin m in accumbō “I lie down,” as compared with accubuī “I lay down.”
infixed
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past participleof infix.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof infix.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
infixnouna morpheme or an entire word that is inserted within the body of another word or element, as Latin m in accumbō “I lie down,” as compared with accubuī “I lay down.”
Example Sentences
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Particles may be prefixed, infixed, or affixed in compounded words, and which one of these methods will finally prevail can be determined only in the later stage of growth.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
A young gentleman has just arrived from Gibraltar, who had been previously six weeks on his passage from Holland to that place, with his legs infixed in a pair of three-league boots.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by James Richardson
Thus, an infixed -um- is characteristic of many intransitive verbs with personal pronominal suffixes, e.g., sad- “to wait,” sumid-ak “I wait”; kineg “silent,” kuminek-ak “I am silent.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
Thus was I transplanted to the soil where I grew to my appointed stature;—a kindly soil and habitat wherein not a few fibers of my affections are left infixed.
From Pioneer Day Exercises by Michigan. Ladies' Library Association Schoolcraft
And afterwards were erected not far from that place the arms of England engraven in lead, and infixed upon a pillar of wood.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes
