Verb: affix 'a,fiks
- Stick or fasten to
"affix the seal here";
- stick on
- Add to the very end
"He affixed a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language";
- append, add on, supplement
- Attach or become attached to a stem word
"grammatical morphemes affix to the stem"
- A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
"The suffix '-ness' is an affix that forms nouns from adjectives"
Derived forms: affixing, affixed, affixes
Type of: attach, bound form, bound morpheme
Part of: word
Encyclopedia: Affix