1871, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical commentary on the Psalms, volume 2, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, page 330:
[…] the combining form would then be a contraction of […]
1899 June 28, A. Jay Cross, “Instrumentation in optometry with a description of two new mechanical devices for the subjective and objective estimation of Ametropia”, in The jewelers' circular and horological review[1], volume 38, number 22, New York: Jewelers' Circular, →OCLC, page 41:
[…]or compound word which would indicate the purposes for which the instrument here presented was intended. The word Retino, a combining form of the Latin word Retina, has been placed before the Greek word Skia, for shadow, which in turn prefixes the Latin word meter, for measure, and is used to show that the Retino-Skiameter is a retinal shadow measure, […]
1922, Garland Greever, Joseph Morris Bachelor, The Century vocabulary builder, New York: The Century, →OCLC, page 100:
[…] from some lexicons you may obtain still further help. You may find ology, logy, logo, or log listed as a combining form, its meaning given, and examples of its use in compounds cited.
1995, “combining form”, in Theodore Lester Harris, Richard E Hodges, editors, The literacy dictionary : the vocabulary of reading and writing, Newark, DE: International Reading Association, →ISBN, page 36:
Through the linguistic process of clipping, some combining forms become words in themselves, as bio, metro, and porno.
1998, Roswitha Fischer, Lexical change in present day English : a corpus based study of the motivation, institutionalization, and productivity of creative neologisms, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, →ISBN, page 22:
On a continuum between free lexical morpheme and affix, the combining form is situated in the middle. The supposition of a continuum spanning across free lexical morpheme ← combining form → affix is justified by the historically documented transitions found from free to bound morpheme, and vice versa. In analogy to the combining form, the word-formation pattern which consists of a combining form is called a combination.
1998, Rose Christoforo-Mitchell, Vocabulary power : successful strategies for word mastery, Rev edition, Portland, ME: J. Weston Walch, →ISBN, page 86:
A combining form is another kind of word part. It can be joined with one or more prefixes or suffixes, with full words, or with other combining forms to make words.
2000, Dorothy Kenny, “Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-English translation”, in Bill Dodd, editor, Working with German corpora, Edgbaston, UK: University of Birmingham University Press, →ISBN, page 148:
The English combining form -friendly seems to have the same sort of semantic preferences as its German counterpart.
2007, P. H. Matthews, “combining form”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:
Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.
2007, Jingyu Zhang, The semantic salience hierarchy model: The L2 acquisition of psych predicates, Bern, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 103:
A bound morpheme is an affix or combining form that cannot stand as a word on its own, but must be used with another, while an ubound morpheme ( also known as a 'free form') can be used on its own.
2008, U.S. Government Printing Office style manual, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 110 (n. 7.1.):
When compound words must be divided at the end of a line, such division should be made leaving prefixes and combining forms of more than one syllable intact.
2009, Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
Although -ible is now dead as a combining form in English, the words in the following list retain that suffix[…]
2013, Amy Benjamin, John T. Crow, Vocabulary at the core : teaching the common core standards, Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, →ISBN, page 29:
A combining form is similar to a prefix in that it appears at the beginning of a word. However, the combining form is intrinsic to the word: Unlike a prefix, cannot be removed from the base word.
