■ verb ə'fɪks attach or fasten to something else.
■ noun 'afɪks Grammar an addition to the base form or stem of a word that modifies its meaning or creates a new word.
Derivatives
~ation noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. ~er or med. L. ~are , frequentative of L. affigere , from ad- 'to' + figere 'to fix'.