Latinate affix

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.