Latinate affix
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Latinate affix is 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 -(t)ion cannot be used with native (Germanic) verb roots (*breaktion), while it attaches freely to latinate ones (deduction).
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Aronoff, M. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar, MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
- Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.
