DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmacrude-form
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaWhitney (1875)
TitoloThe Life and Growth of language
Sinonimibase (inglese)
radical element (inglese)
root (inglese) 
Rinviiaffix (inglese)
formative element (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[…] so long as the independent word, in its individual shape and meaning, is plainly recognized in the combination, so long does this remain a compound rather than a form […] a disguising alteration is needed to help make an affix- a “formative element,” as it is properly termed in distinction from the “radical element,” the root or base, or the crude-form, to which it is appended.
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 124