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1. ambi-, prefix View full entry 1894
...repr. Latin ambi- both, on both sides (ambo both), in various (chiefly scientific) terms (see words in ambi-)....
2. amphi-, prefix View full entry 1842
...Used in many derivatives and compounds....
3. bin-, prefix View full entry 1808
...treated as a euphonic form of bi-, used before vowels. Not found in Latin: it seems to have originated in French with the word binocle, which was probably...
4. citra-, prefix View full entry 1855
...as in (Rarely used, cis- being more usual.)...
5. contra-, prefix View full entry 1877
...In Latin contrā, construed adverbially with certain verbs, tended at length to be written in combination, as contrā dīcere, later contrādīcere, ‘to speak on the opposite...
6. 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....
7. ento-, prefix View full entry 1835-6
...(before a vowel commonly reduced to ent-), repr. Greek ἐντός within, inside, in many compounds of mod. formation relating to anatomy and biology....
8. epi-, prefix View full entry 1826
...repr. Greek ἐπι- (before an unaspirated vowel usually ἐπ-, before an aspirated vowel ἐϕ-, represented in English by ep-, used in prepositional and advb....
9. eso-, prefix View full entry 1817
...employed in a few compounds of modern formation from words of Greek origin....
10. 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...
11. iodoso(-), prefix View full entry 1892
...used in Chem. as comb. form of iodous to indicate the presence of an IO group in a compound, as in ioˌdosoˈbenzene Also as quasi-...
12. juxta-, prefix View full entry 1875
...repr. Latin juxtā adv. and prep. ‘near, by the side of, according to’, used in recent formations, in which it stands in prepositional relation to the n. represented in the...
13. ker-, prefix View full entry 1836
...The first element in numerous onomatopœic or echoic formations intended to imitate the sound or the effect of the fall of some heavy body, as kerchunk, kerflop, ...
14. meta-, prefix View full entry 1838
...Denoting change, transformation, permutation, or substitution....
15. per-, prefix View full entry 1818
...As an etymological element. With the senses:...
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. sursum-, prefix View full entry 1893
...formative element Latinsursum from below, up used in terms in Ophthalmol....
18. under-, prefix2 View full entry 1876
...originating in the coalescence of the preposition under with a following noun, the compound being then usually employed as an adj. or adv., as underfoot, underground,...
19. ur-, prefix View full entry 1889
...repr. German (also Middle High German, Old High German) ur-, denoting ‘primitive, original, earliest,’ as ur-Hamlet, ur-origin, ur-stock, etc. See also Urheimat,...
