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1. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
2. hylo-, comb. form View full entry 1655-87
...The modern formations are either technical terms of natural history (with hylo- = ‘wood’, ‘forest’) or of philosophy (with hylo- = ‘matter’)....
3. mechanico-, comb. form View full entry 1825
...Forming adjectives and nouns relating to or involving mechanics or mechanical actions or processes....
4. objectivo-, comb. form View full entry a1856
...Used as a combining form of objective...
5. onto-, comb. form View full entry 1803
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to being or existence’, as ontography, ontology, ontotheology, etc....
6. pan-, comb. form View full entry 1613
...Forming terms relating to the whole of the universe or mankind, or denoting that the second element exists or operates at a universal level....
7. parti-, comb. form2 View full entry 1852
...designating a proposition in which both terms are partial or particular....
8. philosophico-, comb. form View full entry 1740
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘philosophically—, philosophical and ——’....
9. physico-, comb. form View full entry 1666
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to physics or natural science and (the subject implied or denoted by the second element); of or relating to the physical branch...
10. pneumato-, comb. form View full entry 1678
...Forming adjectives and nouns relating to air, gas, or spirit. Cf. pneumo-1....
11. poly-, comb. form View full entry 1607
...Used as a freely productive prefix, chiefly in scientific and technical use, with the senses ‘many, much’, ‘having, involving, containing, consisting of, etc., many’, where many variously connotes ‘two or...
12. practico-, comb. form View full entry 1913
...Forming adjectives with sense ‘practically, practical and —’, as practico-empirical, practico-social, practico-spiritual, practico-theoretical, etc....
13. proto-, comb. form View full entry 1576
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earliest, original; at an early stage of development, primitive; incipient, potential’....
14. pseudo-, comb. form View full entry a1425
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘false, pretended, counterfeit, spurious, sham; apparently but not really, falsely or erroneously called or represented, falsely, spuriously’....
15. psycho-, comb. form View full entry 1607
...Forming words with the senses ‘of or relating to the soul or spirit’, ‘of or relating to the mind or psyche’, ‘of or relating to psychology’....
16. quasi-, comb. form View full entry 1643
...Prefixed to a noun with the sense ‘resembling or simulating, but not really the same as, that properly so termed; having some but not all of the properties of a thing or...
17. tetra-, comb. form View full entry 1471
...As a general etymological element....
18. toto-, comb. form View full entry 1586
...used as combining form of Latin tōtus whole, in certain cases, instead of the normal form toti- (see -o-), forming compound adjs....
