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1. 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....
2. anti-, prefix1 View full entry 1559
...Combinations....
3. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
4. 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...
5. ˈcounter-, prefix View full entry 1523
...verbs, as counteract, counter-make, countersay, counterweigh, counterwork, with their derivatives: which see in their alphabetic places. Also many nonce-words, either contextual,...
6. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
7. en-, prefix1 View full entry c1380
...Signification and uses. The applications of the prefix in French (Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese), and hence in English, are substantially identical with those of the Latin in-, which was used to...
8. epana-, prefix View full entry 1579
...before stems beginning with a vowel epan-, a combination of two Greek prepositions ἐπ(ί) upon, in addition + ἀνά up, again, occurring in some rhetorical terms,...
9. extra-, prefix View full entry 1570
...Adjs. with general sense ‘situated outside something’ (e.g. in Anat. a specified organ or member), ‘lying outside the province or scope of’ (a specified branch of science, department...
10. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
11. hemi-, prefix View full entry 1776
...Half-; one half, the half, pertaining to or affecting one half; esp. in Anat., Biol., and Pathol. Pertaining to one of the two halves...
12. 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)....
13. hypo-, prefix View full entry c1540
...In words from Greek: the most important of these are hypochondria, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypotenuse, hypothec, hypothesis, and their derivatives....
14. 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....
15. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
16. 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,...
17. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
18. post-, prefix View full entry 1578
...Forming words in which post- is either adverbial or adjectival, and qualifies the verb, or the verbal derivative or other adjective or noun which forms or is implied in the...
19. pre-, prefix View full entry 1559
...Combinations in which pre- is adverbial or adjectival, qualifying the verb, adjective, or noun to which it is prefixed....
20. 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...
