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1. aver-, comb. form View full entry 1253-1378
...? corn paid as a feudal due or in lieu of service....
2. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
3. break-, comb. form View full entry c1300
...With verb + object....
4. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
5. choke-, comb. form View full entry 1556
...in attributive relation to a n. = ‘choking, that chokes’....
6. chryso-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...In general combinations and derivatives....
7. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
8. gynaeco-, comb. form View full entry 1594
...repr. Greek γυναικο-, comb. form of γυνή woman, female, as in:...
9. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
10. -in-law, comb. form (and n.) View full entry 1894
...A phrase appended to names of relationship, as father, mother, brother, sister, son, etc., to indicate that the relationship is not by...
11. make-, comb. form View full entry ?1518
...Forming compounds (chiefly nonce-words) with nouns, with the sense ‘a person who or thing which makes, makes for, or serves for ——’....
12. nomo-, comb. form View full entry 1594
...Forming words relating to laws or legislation....
13. proto-, comb. form View full entry 1576
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earliest, original; at an early stage of development, primitive; incipient, potential’....
14. quadru-, comb. form View full entry 1575
...Forming a small number of words with the sense ‘having four, fourfold’ (cf. quadri-), chiefly modelled on Latin words....
15. sexti-, comb. form View full entry 1548
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘having six, sixfold’....
16. theologo-, comb. form View full entry 1827
...combining form repr. Greek θεολόγος a theologian: as in theˈologo-inquisiˈtorialtheˈologo-ˈjurist...
17. tri-, comb. form View full entry 1425
...Forming adjs. (and derived ns. and advbs.) with the senses:...
