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1. agro-, comb. form View full entry 1893
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words with the sense ‘of or relating to agriculture’....
2. anarcho-, comb. form View full entry 1907
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘anarchist (or anarchistic) (and) ——’....
3. auto-, comb. form1 View full entry c1833
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to chemical, biological, or organic processes, with the sense ‘originating within or acting on the body or organism in question; self-produced; self-induced’;human activity or behaviour,...
4. break-, comb. form View full entry c1300
...With verb + object....
5. 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,...
6. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
7. 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....
8. eco-, comb. form View full entry 1939
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘ecological and ——’, as eco-cultural, eco-historical, eco-philosophical, eco-religious, etc.; see also ecogeographic, ecogeographical4, ...
9. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
10. hieˈratico-, comb. form View full entry 1685
...combining form of Greek ἱερατικόςhieratic...
11. † kine-, comb. form1 View full entry c893
...the representative in early Middle English of Old English cyne-, cyni-, used in numerous combs. with the sense of ‘kingly, royal’, as cyne-bearn, -cynn,...
12. macro-, comb. form View full entry 1821
...Forming terms (esp. in Biol. and Crystallogr.) in which macro- denotes relatively large size or the existence of smaller individuals, chiefly in contrast with similar words...
13. miso-, comb. form View full entry 1611
...Forming terms, chiefly nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘(a person) who hates or dislikes ——’, ‘hatred or dislike of ——’, ‘characterized by hatred or dislike of ——’. The more significant terms...
14. pluri-, comb. form View full entry 1762
...Forming chiefly adjectives with the sense ‘several, more than one’. Frequently indicating the presence or involvement of more than one of the thing denoted by the second element....
15. politico-, comb. form View full entry 1700
...As a prefix to an adjective....
16. 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’....
17. 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’....
18. 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’....
19. robo-, comb. form View full entry 1945
...Chiefly Science Fiction. Forming nouns with the sense ‘a robotic or automatic ——’....
20. snap-, comb. form View full entry 1603
...With ns. (also forming derivatives)....
