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Verb: affix  u'fiks
  1. Attach to
    "affix the seal here"
    - stick on
     
  2. Add to the very end
    "He affixed a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language"
    - append, add on, supplement
     
  3. Attach or become attached to a stem word
    "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem"
Noun: affix  a-fiks
  1. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form

Derived forms: affixes, affixed, affixing

See also: affixation, affixial

Type of: attach, bound form, bound morpheme

Part of: word

Encyclopedia: Affix