ambifix
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
noun
A bound morpheme that can be used either as a prefix or suffix.
noun
A circumfix.
verb
To affix an ambifix to (a word).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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[…]"