In linguistics, a libfix is a productive bound morpheme affix created by rebracketing and back-formation, often a generalization of a component of a blended...
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In 2013 Dictionary.com said it was adding both mansplain and the suffix (libfix) -splain to its dictionary. Its announcement read in part: "In addition...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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called polymerase; see also reverse transcriptase. The -ase suffix is a libfix derived from "diastase", the first recognized enzyme. Its usage in subsequently...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards Arab spring deadname gamification libfix 2010s portal "Dialogue for Peace and Harmony – The Astana Times". The Astana...
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"ethane" with the "-ol" ending of "alcohol", which was generalized as a libfix. The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Potomac River between 1935 and 1965. The suffix has become productive as a libfix and is used to embellish a noun or name to suggest the existence of a far-reaching...
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technical meanings in neologisms, not predictable from the Greek sense (cf. libfix): -cyte or cyto- < κύτος 'container', means biological cells, not arbitrary...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. -zilla is an English slang suffix, a libfix back-formation derived from the English name of the Japanese movie monster...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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French) -tard, e.g. Paultard, conspiratard, "Trumptard", libtard—a productive libfix abstracted from retard, perhaps influenced by the similar non-productive...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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Affixes Prefix Suffix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Libfix Interfix Transfix Simulfix Suprafix Disfix See also: Null morpheme v t e...
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