An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONFIX
Etymology
Noun
confix (plural confixes)
(linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
(linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
Synonyms
• (prefix-suffix unit): circumfix, ambifix
Coordinate terms
• (types of affixes): adfix, affix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, suffix, suprafix
Verb
confix (third-person singular simple present confixes, present participle confixing, simple past and past participle confixed)
(obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
Source: Wiktionary
Con*fix", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Confixing.] [L. confixus, p. p. of configere to fasten together.]
Definition: To fix; to fasten. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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