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1. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
2. ante-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Forming nouns. (Main stress on ˈante-: ˈantechapel.)...
3. ap-, prefix3 View full entry 1647
4. cis-, prefix View full entry a1661
...In modern use, either as adaptations of Latin, or formed on the adjs. belonging to modern names....
5. de-, prefix View full entry 1625
...As an etymological element. In the senses:...
6. dys-, prefix View full entry 1623
...repr. Greek δυσ-= Sanskritdus-, Old Germanic*tuz-, Old High Germanzúr- (Germanzer-), Old Norsetor-, Old English ‘inseparable prefix, opp. to ...
7. 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)....
8. infra-, prefix View full entry 1650
...repr. Latin infrā adv. and prep. ‘below, underneath, beneath’ (in medieval Latin also ‘within’), used in numerous recent formations, chiefly adjectival....
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. 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...
11. pene-, prefix View full entry 1647
...Used with the sense of ‘nearly, almost, all but’ to form adjectives and nouns....
12. peri-, prefix View full entry 1691
...Astron. and Astronaut. Forming nouns referring to the point in the orbit of a celestial object or spacecraft at which it is closest to the primary about which it...
13. preter-, prefix View full entry 1617
...Forming chiefly adjectives with sense ‘more than —’, ‘beyond —’....
14. 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.)...
15. re-, prefix View full entry 1605
...With the general sense of ‘back’ or ‘again’, occurring in a large number of words directly or indirectly adopted from Latin, or of later Romance origin, and on the model of these...
16. sym-, prefix View full entry 1671
...repr. Greek συμ-, assimilated form of συν-syn-, before labials (β, μ, π, ϕ, ψ), hence in words of Greek derivation in Latin and modern languages before ...
17. trans-, prefix View full entry 1612
...With the sense ‘across, through, over, to or on the other side of, beyond, outside of, from one place, person, thing, or state to another’: in verbs and their derivative ns. and...
