Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- prefix Same as
penta- ; -- used as a combining form before vowels, as inpent oxide.
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- prefix Form of
penta- used before a vowel.
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Examples
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For its part, pent- is derived from the earlier Latin verbs pendēre and pendere.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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House was therefore a kind of inorganic addition to pent-, a renovated Germanic structure attached to the older, Franco-Latin outbuilding.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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That is, pent- in the original pentiz was “reheard” as a familiar element, as the pent- in words like pentangle.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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That is, pent- in the original pentiz was “reheard” as a familiar element, as the pent- in words like pentangle.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For its part, pent- is derived from the earlier Latin verbs pendēre and pendere.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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House was therefore a kind of inorganic addition to pent-, a renovated Germanic structure attached to the older, Franco-Latin outbuilding.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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"Significant gains in pickups suggests that there is pent- up demand in the small-business and work-truck area of the business," Alan Baum, an industry consultant at Baum & Associates in West Bloomfield, Michigan, said in a phone interview.
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Continued recovery in the U.S. economy combined with pent- up consumer demand to replace aging vehicles pushed January sales to a 14.2 million annualized rate, the highest since August 2009 during the U.S. government's cash-for-clunkers trade-in program.
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Continued recovery in the U.S. economy combined with pent- up consumer demand to replace aging vehicles pushed January sales to a 14.2 million annualized rate, the highest since August 2009 during the U.S. government's cash-for-clunkers trade-in program.
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They attached the English word house, as a kind of verbal lean-to, to the word’s core syllable: pent-.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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