préfixe

Sardou explains: "I have used the noun préfixe quite frequently [...] I have made this word feminine [...] it is wrong, in my opinion, that some people, giving as a reason that German grammarians use the Latin neuter praefixum in this case, say le préfixe, un préfixe. This word is for us, French, the adjective préfixe used as a noun [...] and here the noun understood is the particle."