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1. a-, prefix2 View full entry c1275
...(No longer productive.) Expressing completeness; = y-23....
2. 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...
3. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
4. 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, ...
5. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
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. 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.)...
9. retro-, prefix View full entry 1759
...Miscellaneous terms....
10. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
11. 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....
