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1. a-, prefix1 View full entry
...With verbs, implying motion onward or away from a position; hence (originally with verbs of motion) adding intensity....
2. a-, prefix2 View full entry c1275
...(No longer productive.) Expressing completeness; = y-23....
3. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
4. a-, prefix4 View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming compounds with nouns, verbs, and adjectives, originally with the senses ‘away’, ‘off’, ‘from’, ‘of’....
5. afore-, prefix View full entry c1330
...Of time. (See also aforyen, afornon)...
6. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
7. alder-, prefix View full entry ?a1160
...Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last, alder-most, etc. Usu. in cases where modern English uses an adverbial...
8. an-, prefix1 View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
9. anti-, prefix2 View full entry
...A variant of ante- ‘before,’ being the form in Italian and Old French, and occasionally in Latin, hence sometimes also in English in words from these, as antibrachial,...
10. 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...
11. cor-, prefix View full entry
...Assimilated form of the prefix com-, con-, before r; as in Latin correctuscorrect, corrupt-uscorrupt, etc. For the general sense see...
12. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
13. di-, prefix2 View full entry
...the form of dia- used before a vowel, as in di-acoustic, di-æresis, di-esis, di-ocese, di-optric, di-orama....
14. e-, prefix2 View full entry
...Occas. variant of y-. Obs....
15. 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....
16. 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...
17. ˈhemi-ˌdemi-ˈsemi, prefix View full entry 1929
...used as adj. and sometimes as a combining form in imitation of the use in hemidemisemiquaver (s.v. hemi-)....
18. hyp-, prefix View full entry
...the form of hypo- used before a vowel: see the words below....
19. il-, prefix1 View full entry
...assimilated form in Latin of the prefix in- before initial l, which is written in the same way in English, as in il-lation, il-luminate....
20. il-, prefix2 View full entry
...assimilated form in Latin of the negative prefix in- before initial l, which remains in the same form in English, as in il-legal, il-legitimate,...