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- noun Plural form of
prefix . - noun Plural form of
prefixe . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
prefix .
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Not only do many existing words originate from Latin, many new words are constructed from Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Improve Your Vocabulary by Knowing These Latin Prefixes « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2010
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The range of SI unit prefixes is shown above; “yotta” is the largest accepted prefix, used to measure things like the diameter of the known universe (in yards).
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Any comparison between 19 and 20 as decade prefixes is bound to fail unless one remembers that no one ever says “I have twenty hundred dollars” but many (most?) do say “I have nineteen hundred dollars.”
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An examination of the 20,000 most used words reveals 5,000 words contain prefixes and over 80% of these use one of only fourteen of the many different prefixes available.
Improve Your Vocabulary by Knowing These Latin Prefixes « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2010
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* To prevent duplication within a state, a progression of prefixes is used for the three-digit numbers.
Boing Boing: January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005 Archives 2005
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I believe modern Omnitheism is something of a phenomenon, I myself began using the word prefixes of Omni - to describe my beliefs a few years back, and for me it meant many things.
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Back-forming by removing prefixes is less common, except in humorous contexts such as Jack Winter’s “How I met my wife”, which boasts a litany of deliberately malformed terms like chalant, ept, and peccable.
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Back-forming by removing prefixes is less common, except in humorous contexts such as Jack Winter’s “How I met my wife”, which boasts a litany of deliberately malformed terms like chalant, ept, and peccable.
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“Back-forming by removing prefixes is less common, except in humorous contexts such as Jack Winter’s “How I met my wife”, which boasts a litany of deliberately malformed terms like chalant, ept, and peccable.”
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Another problem is that we don’t really pronounce the Latin prefixes and suffixes the way they are written; again, it would vacate linguistic logic if were to change spellings of those, as no Romance language has really done.
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