ambifix noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix. •A bound morpheme that can be used either as a prefix or suffix. •A circumfix. verb1 •To affix an ambifix to (a word).Examples of such other methods are intercalation, as in Semitic, and what might be called ambifixing, where an affix has two parts, one of which precedes the entire root, while the other follows. — 1966 formsambifixed · ambifixing · ambifixes