The process of neoclassical word formation is extremely productive in the formation of the international scientific and technical terminology. Currently, we can detect a wide variety of neoclassical word formation elements, also called suffixoides and prefixoides, in the structure of the Romanian maritime terms. Prefixoids and suffixoids differ from the ordinary prefixes and suffixes in the fact that they have a high degree of lexical and semantic autonomy, given by the fact that they originate

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... from themes, which in the language of origin (Hellenic or Latin), had a meaning of their own, being nominal, pronominal or verbal themes. Prefixoids and suffixoids enrich the meaning of the concept, to which they emphasize the degree of accuracy. Some of these elements have known an increasing productivity as we approach the current period. This is eloquently proven by the fact that we find them attached to inherited root words (e.g. supravieţuire, suprafaţă, supraveghea) or to words borrowed from the neighbouring languages, many of them attached to a base of French origin (e.g. suprastructură, supraimersiune). Thus, the predilection for this word formation process is obvious in the Romanian maritime terminology, however the significant number of the terms formed this way does not come as a surprise if we consider the fact that that we are dealing with a booming international language.