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Definition of Parasynthetic
1. a. Formed from a compound word.
Definition of Parasynthetic
1. Adjective. (grammar) formed by adding multiple elements (prefixes, suffixes, etc.) to a compound word ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parasynthetic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasynthetic
Literary usage of Parasynthetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... to arrange, is what is termed a parasynthetic compound, that is, formed direct
from the prep, a and the subst. tire, row—just as aligner, embarquer, ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"... and both forming later parasynthetic compounds, 'ike beetle-browed in the form
of beetle-headed, beetle-eyed (= beetle-blind), etc. ..."
3. Historical Outlines of English Accidence: Comprising Chapters on the History by Richard Morris (1875)
"(2) Incautious, impolitic, illegal, irregular, &c. It occurs in some few
parasynthetic verbs, as incapacitate, indispose, ..."
4. The Making of English by Henry Bradley (1904)
"One such type is that of the so-called ' parasynthetic ' formation, like blue-eyed,
longhaired, swallow-tailed. English idiom leaves us almost as free to ..."
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