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1. afore-, prefix View full entry c1330
...Of time. (See also aforyen, afornon)...
2. 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....
3. alder-, prefix View full entry ?a1160
...Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last, alder-most, etc. Usu. in cases where modern English uses an adverbial...
4. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
5. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
6. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
7. dys-, prefix View full entry 1623
...repr. Greek δυσ-= Sanskritdus-, Old Germanic*tuz-, Old High Germanzúr- (Germanzer-), Old Norsetor-, Old English ‘inseparable prefix, opp. to ...
8. ento-, prefix View full entry 1835-6
...(before a vowel commonly reduced to ent-), repr. Greek ἐντός within, inside, in many compounds of mod. formation relating to anatomy and biology....
9. eso-, prefix View full entry 1817
...employed in a few compounds of modern formation from words of Greek origin....
10. hyper-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Formations in which, as in hyperborean, the prefix has the prepositional force of ‘over, beyond, or above’ (what is denoted by the second element)....
11. hypo-, prefix View full entry c1540
...In words from Greek: the most important of these are hypochondria, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypotenuse, hypothec, hypothesis, and their derivatives....
12. intro-, prefix View full entry 1656
...Latin intrō adv. ‘to the inside’, used with verbs and their derivatives, as intrōdūcĕre to lead in, introduce, intrōspicĕre to look within. Hence in English words...
13. meta-, prefix View full entry 1838
...Denoting change, transformation, permutation, or substitution....
14. mis-, prefix1 View full entry a1450
...Prefixed to verbs, with sense ‘badly’, ‘wrongly’, ‘perversely’, ‘mistakenly’, ‘amiss’....
15. non-, prefix View full entry a1420
...Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun,...
16. nor-, prefix View full entry 1909
...Prefixed to the names of organic compounds to denote the replacement of one or (esp. in terpenes) all the (methyl) side chains by hydrogen atoms....
17. on-, prefix View full entry OE
...Compounds in which on- has adverbial force....
18. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
19. over-, prefix View full entry eOE
...In spatial and temporal senses, and in uses directly related to these....
20. para-, prefix1 View full entry 1715
...Forming miscellaneous terms in the sense ‘analogous or parallel to, but separate from or going beyond, what is denoted by the root word’....
