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Confit vs Confix - What's the difference?

confit | confix |

As nouns the difference between confit and confix

is that confit is any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation while confix is an affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root.

As a verb confix is

to make firm; to fix in a particular place or state.

confit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.

    • confix

    English

    (wikipedia confix)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, chapter=Tsou citation
    • , passage=As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu. }}
  • (linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
  • *{{quote-book, 1982, & Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, url=, page=84
    • , passage=22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.}}

    Synonyms

    *(prefix-suffix unit) circumfix, ambifix

    Coordinate terms

    *(affixes)

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
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