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1. avaunt, adv., int., and prefix View full entry c1400
...Forward, to the front. Obs....
2. co-, prefix View full entry 1430
...Verbs. Of a joint subject....
3. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
4. enter- | entre-, prefix View full entry 1477
... French entre-:—Latin inter (see inter-), with senses ‘between’, ‘among’, ‘mutually’. Occurring first in words French, as enterfeat, entermise, ...
5. mis-, prefix1 View full entry a1450
...Prefixed to verbs, with sense ‘badly’, ‘wrongly’, ‘perversely’, ‘mistakenly’, ‘amiss’....
6. 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,...
7. 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....
8. sur-, prefix View full entry c1482
... (Old) French sur-, earlier sour-, sor-, soure- (repr. Latin super), used in various senses of super-, as in ...
9. vice-, prefix View full entry 1497
...representing Latin vice in place of: see vice Originally this governed a following word in the genitive, but in late Latin the tendency to use the phrase as...
