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1. anti-, prefix1 View full entry 1559
...Combinations....
2. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
3. endo-, prefix and comb. form View full entry 18..
...(before a vowel sometimes reduced to end-), employed as comb. form of Greek ἔνδον within, in many compounds of mod. formation....
4. hyper-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Formations in which, as in hyperborean, the prefix has the prepositional force of ‘over, beyond, or above’ (what is denoted by the second element)....
5. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
6. intra-, prefix View full entry 1666
...In adjectives (properly, and most frequently, of Latin origin) in which it stands in prepositional relation to the n. implied in the second element....
7. intro-, prefix View full entry 1656
...Latin intrō adv. ‘to the inside’, used with verbs and their derivatives, as intrōdūcĕre to lead in, introduce, intrōspicĕre to look within. Hence in English words...
8. meta-, prefix View full entry 1838
...Denoting change, transformation, permutation, or substitution....
9. non-, prefix View full entry a1420
...Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun,...
10. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
11. on-, prefix View full entry OE
...Compounds in which on- has adverbial force....
12. para-, prefix1 View full entry 1715
...Forming miscellaneous terms in the sense ‘analogous or parallel to, but separate from or going beyond, what is denoted by the root word’....
13. post-, prefix View full entry 1578
...Forming words in which post- is either adverbial or adjectival, and qualifies the verb, or the verbal derivative or other adjective or noun which forms or is implied in the...
14. pre-, prefix View full entry 1559
...Combinations in which pre- is adverbial or adjectival, qualifying the verb, adjective, or noun to which it is prefixed....
15. pro-, prefix1 View full entry 1645
...Chiefly as an etymological element. The following are the principal uses in Latin and English. (All words of this class appear as headwords.)...
16. retro-, prefix View full entry 1759
...Miscellaneous terms....
17. sub-, prefix View full entry c1386
...In prepositional relation to the noun constituting or implied in the second element, with the sense ‘situated, existing, or occurring under, below, or at the bottom of’....
18. super-, prefix View full entry c1429
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another, and verbs expressing this relation....
19. ultra-, prefix View full entry 1551
...Signifying ‘lying spatially beyond or on the other side of’:...
20. un-, prefix1 View full entry a1175
...Expressing negation. The prefix has been very extensively employed in English, as in the other Germanic languages, and is now the one which can be used with the greatest freedom in new...
