infix🔊

(archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

To instill.

(linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

An affix inserted inside a root, such as (-ma-) in English (edumacation).

(agglutinative) (dated) 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).

(dated) A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.

(proscribed) (interfix).