Definitions For Parasynthesis

Noun

PARASYNTHESIS (plural parasyntheses) (grammar) The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed. (grammar) The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.

Derived terms

parasynthetic

Translations

Catalan: parasíntesi, f French: parasynthèse, f Galician: parasíntese, f German: Dekompositum, n, Parasynthetum, n Greek: παρασύνθεση, f Hungarian: paraszintézis Italian: parasintesi, f Portuguese: parassíntese, f Spanish: parasíntesis, f

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, grc, παρασύνθεσις}}.