Definition of "infix" in English

verb

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

   • to infix a sting, spear, or dart
   • The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:

2. (transitive) To instill.

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

noun

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

2. (some authors when describing agglutinative languages, otherwise 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.

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

4. (proscribed) Synonym of interfix.