| infix |
| Definition:
An affix that is placed within a morpheme. Note: In contrast to interfixeswhich are placed between two morphemes to form a word. |
| Example: One of the few English infixes is -ma-, which is used jocularly to give words false-sophistication, as in sophistimacated and edumacated. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The term's first citation is from 1881: "The arguments establishing the … connection of the Cambojan and Malayan languages … based on the principle of modifying infixes." (Nature XXIII. 271/1) |