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1. 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,...
2. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
3. cyber-, comb. form View full entry 1961
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words, as cybercubicle, cyberfeminist, cyberfriend, cyberlover, cybersnob, etc.; cyber-sheepishly adv....
4. 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, ...
5. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
6. Franken-, comb. form View full entry 1992
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘genetically modified ——’; (also occas.) ‘—— relating to genetic modification’. Esp. in Frankenfood; cf. Frankenstein foodFrankenstein....
7. 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:...
8. make-, comb. form View full entry ?1518
...Forming compounds (chiefly nonce-words) with nouns, with the sense ‘a person who or thing which makes, makes for, or serves for ——’....
9. mar-, comb. form View full entry 1575
...Prefixed to nouns, to form nouns with the sense ‘a person who mars’, in many nonce-words (chiefly names) occurring in the Marprelate tracts or in later works referring to them. Now ...
10. Mc-, comb. form View full entry 1948
...Prefixed chiefly to nouns to create mock names denoting a person who (or occas. thing that) is considered an exemplar or personification of the specified class, interest, association, etc....
11. mega-, comb. form View full entry 1868
...Forming scientific and technical terms with the sense ‘very large’, ‘comparatively large’, or (esp. in Pathol.) ‘abnormally large’, often having correlatives beginning micro-, and sometimes also synonyms beginning...
12. -mongery, comb. form View full entry
...As the final element in compounds (usually after an earlier compound in monger2): trade or traffic in the commodity, etc., specified....
13. slope-, comb. form View full entry 1647
...In combs., representing either the n. or adj., or the stem of the vb....
14. suck-, comb. form View full entry 1551
...the verb-stem used in combination:...
