fix
English
/ˈfɪks/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive) To prepare (food or drink).
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
- (transitive) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (transitive) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fixen borrowed from Old French *fixer derived from Latin fīxus (immovable, steady, fixed, stable, fastened) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (stick, set up, set, jab, fix).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeygʷ-
Gloss
stick, set up, set, jab, fix
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- affix English
- affixable English
- affixal English
- affixation English
- affixer English
- affixeth English
- affixhood English
- affixion English
- affixive English
- affixment English
- affixoid English
- biofix English
- bug English
- bugfix English
- cryofix English
- fixability English
- fixable English
- fixer English
- fixer-upper English
- fixest English
- fixeth English
- fixie English
- fixism English
- fixist English
- fixity English
- fixive English
- fixless English
- fixly English
- fixt English
- forefix English
- hot English
- hotfix English
- interfix English
- mix English
- mixfix English
- nonaffix English
- overfix English
- perfix English
- postfix English
- postfixal English
- reaffix English
- refix English
- technofix English
- underfix English
- unfix English
- unfixability English
- unfixable English
- unfixity English
- unfixt English
- up English
- vixen English
- affixus Latin
- finis Latin
- fīgō Latin
- fīxus Latin
- fix German
- fiksen Dutch, Flemish
- fixe French
- *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeygʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dīkaz Proto-Germanic
- *dīkiją Proto-Germanic
- fyxen Old English
- fixen Middle English
- *fixer Old French
- fiks Serbo-Croatian
- fiksati Serbo-Croatian
- fixer Middle French
- *feigʷō Proto-Italic
- *dʰingʷ-u Proto-Albanian
- up
- mix
- bug
- hot
- fixt
- fixie
- fixer
- vixen
- refix
- affix
- fixly
- unfix
- fixest
- biofix
- fixity
- perfix
- unfixt
- fixive
- bugfix
- fixism
- hotfix
- mixfix
- fixist
- fixeth
- overfix
- affixal
- affixer
- fixable
- postfix
- reaffix
- fixless
- forefix
- cryofix
- unfixity
- affixoid
- affixion
- underfix
- affixeth
- nonaffix
- affixive
- interfix
- affixable
- postfixal
- technofix
- unfixable
- affixment
- affixhood
- affixation
- fixability
- fixer-upper
- unfixability