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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An affix consisting of a prefix and a suffix, such as the progressive present marker a- ... -ing in dialectal English I'm a-going or the past participle marker y- ... -t in archaic English yclept.
- v. To add as a circumfix.
Wiktionary
- n. grammar An affix containing both a prefixing and a suffixing element existing as a single morphological unit.
- v. grammar Affix a circumfix to (a word).
Etymologies
- circum- + -fix (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I fixed the error message for a collision aligned a few more things to the specification changed MMD with Jonathan mandatory, named parameters are part of the constraint on a multi where STD uses that, it declares those parameters as mandatory the spec claimed that adverbs and fat-arrow plus circumfix are semantically equivalent fixed the circumfix semantics there in the parse”
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