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Latinate affix

MORPHOLOGY: a term used for affixes which are derived historically from Latin (or Greek), and which only co-occur with Latin or Greek roots. EXAMPLE: the English suffix -ion cannot be used with native (Germanic) verb roots (*breaktion), while it attaches freely to latinate ones (deduction).
LIT. Aronoff, M. (1976)
Spencer, A. (1991)