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1. a-, prefix5 View full entry
...(Not productive in English.) Forming verbs and adjectives (and their derivatives), expressing addition or increase, or bringing into a state....
2. a-, prefix6 View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘without’; ‘not’; ‘-less’....
3. ab-, prefix View full entry
...In combinations already formed in Latin and freq. maintained through Old French, as abhor, or adapted or formed in later French, as abscond, absorb, or adapted...
4. ac-, prefix View full entry
...= ad-....
5. ad-, prefix View full entry
...In combinations formed in Latin and transmitted through Old or later French, as adapt, adduce, address, or adapted or formed in English, as admix,...
6. af-, prefix View full entry
...= ad-....
7. amphi-, prefix View full entry 1842
...Used in many derivatives and compounds....
8. an-, prefix2 View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘without’; ‘not; ‘-less’....
9. † and-, prefix View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs with the senses ‘against, opposite, in reply, in return’. Also in verbs expressing reversal....
10. ap-, prefix3 View full entry 1647
11. arch-, prefix View full entry 1541
...In titles of office, rank, or dignity: meaning, ‘Chief, principal, -in-chief; superior, master-; one who occupies a position or rank above those who bear the simple title’; as archbishop, ...
12. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
13. at-, prefix1 View full entry
...The preposition at in compounds, with force of ‘at, close to, to’; frequent in Old English, and retained in some words in Middle English, as at-stand(en to stand...
14. at-, prefix2 View full entry
...Representing earlier Old English oþ-, oð-, unaccented form of úð- ‘away, from’ = Gothic unþa- in unþa-þliuhan to flee away, German ...
15. avaunt, adv., int., and prefix View full entry c1400
...Forward, to the front. Obs....
16. circum-, prefix View full entry a1513
...Derivatives and combinations in which circum (= around, about, on all sides) adverbially qualifies (a) verbs, (b) participles and participial adjectives, (c) verbal substantives; as (among combinations of...
17. citra-, prefix View full entry 1855
...as in (Rarely used, cis- being more usual.)...
18. dia-, prefix2 View full entry 1362
...in medical terms. In Greek such phrases as διὰ καρύων, διὰ κωδειῶν, διὰ μίσυος, διὰ μόρων, διὰ τριῶν πεπερέων, διὰ τεσσάρων...
19. dis-, prefix View full entry 1566
...The following are the chief senses of dis- in Latin and English:...
20. † e-, prefix1 View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives with various senses, such as ‘out, away’ or ‘without’....
