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1. ante-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Forming nouns. (Main stress on ˈante-: ˈantechapel.)...
2. de-, prefix View full entry 1625
...As an etymological element. In the senses:...
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. exo-, prefix View full entry 1817
...(before a vowel sometimes reduced to ex-), repr. Greek ἔξω, without, in many compounds of modern formation, as Linguistics, of language standardization: drawing on foreign models...
5. extra-, prefix View full entry 1570
...Adjs. with general sense ‘situated outside something’ (e.g. in Anat. a specified organ or member), ‘lying outside the province or scope of’ (a specified branch of science, department...
6. 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)....
7. hypo-, prefix View full entry c1540
...In words from Greek: the most important of these are hypochondria, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypotenuse, hypothec, hypothesis, and their derivatives....
8. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
9. 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....
10. meta-, prefix View full entry 1838
...Denoting change, transformation, permutation, or substitution....
11. 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,...
12. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
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. pro-, prefix2 View full entry 1833
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earlier, prior, before (in time)’; spec.chiefly Biol., forming nouns and derived adjectives denoting something that is an earlier or (supposedly)forming...
17. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
18. 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’....
19. 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....
20. supra-, prefix View full entry 1598
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another....
