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1. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
2. 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, ...
3. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
4. circum-, prefix View full entry a1513
...Derivatives and combinations in which circum (= around, about, on all sides) adverbially qualifies (a) verbs, (b) participles and participial adjectives, (c) verbal substantives; as (among combinations of...
5. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
6. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
7. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
8. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
9. on-, prefix View full entry OE
...Compounds in which on- has adverbial force....
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. 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. 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. ultra-, prefix View full entry 1551
...Signifying ‘lying spatially beyond or on the other side of’:...
17. † umbe-, prefix View full entry c1200
...partly (in southern Middle English texts) representing Old English ymbe- (see umbe), but chiefly either an extended form of umb- (cf. umbe) or a...
