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1. cranio-, comb. form View full entry 1804
...In combinations, chiefly in sense ‘belonging or relating to the cranium and…’....
2. hypsi-, comb. form View full entry 1870
...repr. Greek ὕψι on high, aloft, in comb. also = high, lofty. The English words are new formations with hypsi- in the latter sense. See also hypso-...
3. matri-, comb. form View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to relationship through a female line’....
4. mono-, comb. form View full entry 1817
...Used in words adopted from Greek and in English formations modelled on these, and as a freely productive prefix, with the senses ‘one, alone, single’, ‘having, involving, etc., one’, indicating that a...
5. ortho-, comb. form View full entry 1844
...Forming words, chiefly scientific or technical, with the sense ‘straight, rectangular, upright, perpendicular’, or sometimes ‘right, correct, proper’....
6. osteo-, comb. form View full entry 1794
...an aneurysm within a bone....
7. palaeo- | paleo-, comb. form View full entry 1798
...Ancient, old; of or belonging to ancient times, esp. in the geological or prehistoric past. (Often opposed to analogous words in neo-.)...
8. 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....
9. physio-, comb. form2 View full entry 1904
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘relating to physiology; physiological and ——’....
10. 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’....
11. push-, comb. form View full entry 1843
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘moved, actuated, or operated by a push, or by pushing’....
12. socio-, comb. form View full entry 1656
...With the sense ‘fellow’. Obs.rare....
13. statico-, comb. form View full entry 1764
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘static and ——’....
14. tecno-, comb. form View full entry a1676
...repr. Greek τεκνο-, combining form of τέκνον child (as in τεκνογόνος bearing children, etc.); used in English in a few rare technical words....
15. uni-, comb. form View full entry 1605
...Forming adjectives with the general sense ‘having, provided with, composed or consisting of, or characterized by one (thing specified or connoted by the second element)’. Many of these compounds are self-explanatory or...
