afixo
Portuguese, noun/aˈfik.su/
afixo is spelled A-F-I-X-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afixo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “affix (that which is affixed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of afixar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum dos prefixos, infixos e sufixos”.
What does afixo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaffix (that which is affixed)
- 2
masculineaffix (a bound morpheme added to a word’s stem)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of afixar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. fixado a 2. unido
noun: 1. designação comum dos prefixos, infixos e sufixos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of afixo
- afixos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afixo?
- Brazil /aˈfik.su/
- Portugal /ɐˈfik.su/
- Portugal /ɐ.ˈfi.ksu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afixo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afixo in Portuguese?
afixo appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).