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1. allo-, comb. form View full entry 1886
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘other, different(ly)’, as allotheism, allonymous, allogenic, etc....
2. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
3. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
4. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
5. crypto-, comb. form View full entry 1798
...Forming chiefly scientific nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘concealed, not visible, not apparent’. See also cryptobiosis, cryptobranchiate, cryptocrystalline, cryptophyte, etc....
6. dativo-, comb. form View full entry 1882
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘dative and ——’....
7. endo-, prefix and comb. form View full entry 18..
...(before a vowel sometimes reduced to end-), employed as comb. form of Greek ἔνδον within, in many compounds of mod. formation....
8. -glossia, comb. form View full entry
...Pathol. Forming nouns denoting congenital abnormalities of the tongue....
9. gutturo-, comb. form View full entry 1786
...taken as comb. form of Latin guttur throat; in terms of Anat. and Physiol. = pertaining to the throat (and some other part), as gutturo-maxillary...
10. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
11. hetero-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...before a vowel heter-, combining form of Greek ἕτερος the other of two, other, different; a formative of many scientific and other terms, often in opposition to ...
12. homo-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...A formative of many scientific and other terms, often in opposition to hetero-. The more important of these, with their derivatives, will be found in their alphabetical places; others, of...
13. homœo-, comb. form View full entry 1838
...combining form of Greek ὅμοιος of the same kind, like, similar (also occasionally written homoio-, and, in fully anglicized words, esp. in U.S., homeo-); occurring in...
14. ideo-, comb. form View full entry 1834
...Used as combining form of idea...
15. idio-, comb. form View full entry a1626
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the senses ‘own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct’....
16. Indo-, comb. form1 View full entry 1831
...combining form of Greek Ἰνδός, Latin Indus (cf. Greek Ἰνδο-σκυθία Scythia of the Indies, Indian Scythia), employed in modern compounds, in which it qualifies another word,...
17. iso-, comb. form View full entry 18..
...(a line on a map, etc.) connecting places having equal deviation of the mean temperature (for some particular period) from the normal temperature due to the latitude; also iso-abnormal....
18. labio-, comb. form View full entry 1669
...taken as comb. form of Latin labium lip, in Phonetics with the sense ‘formed with lips and (some other organ)’, as labio-dental adj. and n., ...
19. ˈlamino-, comb. form View full entry 1966
...Combining form of laminalb used in Phonetics....
20. lexico-, comb. form View full entry 1953
...In some modern linguistic terms denoting ‘lexical and..’. See also lexicostatistic...
