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1. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
2. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
3. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
4. for-, prefix1 View full entry c1200
...Forming verbs....
5. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
6. 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...
7. 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....
8. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
9. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
10. over-, prefix View full entry eOE
...In spatial and temporal senses, and in uses directly related to these....
11. 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’....
12. 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....
13. 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...
14. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
15. super-, prefix View full entry c1429
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another, and verbs expressing this relation....
16. sur-, prefix View full entry c1482
... (Old) French sur-, earlier sour-, sor-, soure- (repr. Latin super), used in various senses of super-, as in ...
17. to-, prefix2 View full entry c1000
...With separative force: Asunder, apart, to or in pieces; also, away, about, abroad, here and there. Combined with verbs and derived adjs. and ns. The more important of these appear in their...
18. † um-, prefix View full entry a1300
...A reduced form of umb-, perh. directly ON. um- (Icelandic and Norwegian um-. Middle Swedish um-, om-, Swedish and Danish...
19. up-, prefix View full entry a1200
...In comb. with ns. (except as in 3d3e)....
