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1. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
2. de-, prefix View full entry 1625
...As an etymological element. In the senses:...
3. 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...
4. 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....
5. para-, prefix1 View full entry 1715
...Forming miscellaneous terms in the sense ‘analogous or parallel to, but separate from or going beyond, what is denoted by the root word’....
6. 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...
7. 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....
8. preter-, prefix View full entry 1617
...Forming chiefly adjectives with sense ‘more than —’, ‘beyond —’....
9. 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.)...
10. 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...
11. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
12. sub-, prefix View full entry c1386
...In prepositional relation to the noun constituting or implied in the second element, with the sense ‘situated, existing, or occurring under, below, or at the bottom of’....
13. syn-, prefix View full entry 1786
...Latinized form of Greek συν- (= σύν prep. with), together, similarly, alike, occurring in many modern scientific terms, the more recent or less important of which are collected...
