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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. ambi-, prefix View full entry 1894
...repr. Latin ambi- both, on both sides (ambo both), in various (chiefly scientific) terms (see words in ambi-)....
3. amphi-, prefix View full entry 1842
...Used in many derivatives and compounds....
4. ante-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Forming nouns. (Main stress on ˈante-: ˈantechapel.)...
5. anti-, prefix1 View full entry 1559
...Combinations....
6. 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, ...
7. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
8. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
9. 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...
10. cis-, prefix View full entry a1661
...In modern use, either as adaptations of Latin, or formed on the adjs. belonging to modern names....
11. co-, prefix View full entry 1430
...Verbs. Of a joint subject....
12. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
13. dia-, prefix2 View full entry 1362
...in medical terms. In Greek such phrases as διὰ καρύων, διὰ κωδειῶν, διὰ μίσυος, διὰ μόρων, διὰ τριῶν πεπερέων, διὰ τεσσάρων...
14. 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 ...
15. endo-, prefix and comb. form View full entry 18..
...(before a vowel sometimes reduced to end-), employed as comb. form of Greek ἔνδον within, in many compounds of mod. formation....
16. 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....
17. epi-, prefix View full entry 1826
...repr. Greek ἐπι- (before an unaspirated vowel usually ἐπ-, before an aspirated vowel ἐϕ-, represented in English by ep-, used in prepositional and advb....
18. eso-, prefix View full entry 1817
...employed in a few compounds of modern formation from words of Greek origin....
19. exo-, prefix View full entry 1817
...(before a vowel sometimes reduced to ex-), repr. Greek ἔξω, without, in many compounds of modern formation, as Linguistics, of language standardization: drawing on foreign models...
20. extra-, prefix View full entry 1570
...Adjs. with general sense ‘situated outside something’ (e.g. in Anat. a specified organ or member), ‘lying outside the province or scope of’ (a specified branch of science, department...
