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Affix

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to attach or fasten something to another thing, or a prefix or suffix added to a word
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Stage 1 of 3
figere
Latin · ancient
"to fix, to fasten"
to fix, to fasten, combined with ad- (to)
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Stage 2 of 3
affigere
Latin · ancient
"to fasten to"
to fasten to, from ad- and figere
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Stage 3 of 3
affix
English · 1500s
"to attach something to something else"
settled as the English word for attaching something to something else
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