Definition of Superfix

1. a recurrent pattern of stress in speech [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Superfix

superficials
superficiaries
superficiary
superficies
superfield
superfields
superfilter
superfine
superfinely
superfineness
superfinical
superfirm
superfirms
superfit
superfitness
superfix (current term)
superfixes
superflack
superflacks
superflare
superflares
superflies
superflip
superflirt
superflirts
superflow
superflows
superflu
superfluence
superfluid

Literary usage of Superfix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1910)
"Sign 5 on page 50 contains a Kin with a Yax and probably with 18 as a superfix (as on pages 27 and 46 middle). Sign 6 on page 49 contains a crouching person ..."

2. Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann (1906)
"Sign 5 on page 50 contains a Kin with a Yax and probably with 18 as a superfix (as on pages 27 and 46 middle). Sign 6 on page 49 contains a crouching person ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"This combination of the Ren and Ik signs as a superfix reminds one forcibly of the monogram for Kin ieh, "The Sun God", on which it is usually used as a ..."

4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"This combination of the Ben and Ik signs as a superfix reminds one forcibly of the monogram for Kin ieli, "The Sun God", on which it is usually used as a ..."

5. Memoirs by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1902)
"The central superfix of the Pax sign is erased, and there is really nothing ... The superfix is especially like that of Mac, and the symbol itself is in all ..."

6. Mayan Calendar Systems by Cyrus Thomas (1904)
"This, he says, is shown in the lirst (a) in the center of the superfix, where he finds ... Moreover, tho face in the superfix, so far as the details remain, ..."

7. An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1915)
"In c of the last-mentioned figure the ^j^) superfix is of the same size and shape, ... Although the superfix of the head variant in a is somewhat weathered, ..."

8. An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1915)
"In c of the last-mentioned figure the superfix is of the same size and shape, ... Although the superfix of the head variant in a is somewhat weathered, ..."

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