transfix
verb
Meaning
- To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
- To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
- To fix or impale.
- A discontinuous affix, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages, which occurs at more than one position in a word, i.e. a combination of prefixes, infixes and/or suffixes.
Etymology / origin
From Middle French transfixer, from Old French transfixer, from Latin transfigō (“to pierce through”), from trans- (“through”) + figō (“to pierce”).
- transfigō(la)→
- transfixer(fro)→
- transfixer(frm)→
- transfix (English)
- Relations: bor, der, der
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