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1. arch-, prefix View full entry 1541
...In titles of office, rank, or dignity: meaning, ‘Chief, principal, -in-chief; superior, master-; one who occupies a position or rank above those who bear the simple title’; as archbishop, ...
2. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
3. co-, prefix View full entry 1430
...Verbs. Of a joint subject....
4. de-, prefix View full entry 1625
...As an etymological element. In the senses:...
5. dys-, prefix View full entry 1623
...repr. Greek δυσ-= Sanskritdus-, Old Germanic*tuz-, Old High Germanzúr- (Germanzer-), Old Norsetor-, Old English ‘inseparable prefix, opp. to ...
6. 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...
7. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
8. juxta-, prefix View full entry 1875
...repr. Latin juxtā adv. and prep. ‘near, by the side of, according to’, used in recent formations, in which it stands in prepositional relation to the n. represented in the...
9. 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,...
10. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
11. 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...
12. retro-, prefix View full entry 1759
...Miscellaneous terms....
13. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
14. 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’....
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. sym-, prefix View full entry 1671
...repr. Greek συμ-, assimilated form of συν-syn-, before labials (β, μ, π, ϕ, ψ), hence in words of Greek derivation in Latin and modern languages before ...
18. un-, prefix1 View full entry a1175
...Expressing negation. The prefix has been very extensively employed in English, as in the other Germanic languages, and is now the one which can be used with the greatest freedom in new...
19. up-, prefix View full entry a1200
...In comb. with ns. (except as in 3d3e)....
