Words similar to prefix
Example sentences for: prefix
How can you use “prefix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Al and Tipper Gore have helped by saying they've each had "counseling" but, as Frank Rich has noted, Tipper's use of such euphemisms and the avoidance a "professional title [that] might include the prefix 'psych-' ...
Prefix almost qualifies; at least it illustrates a prefix.
Prequel takes the word sequel (Latin sequela meaning what follows), breaks it into se- and -quel , and then combines -quel with the prefix pre-.
An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like
Perhaps better to stay with pseudoetymonym and save the prefix geronto- to form gerontonym , meaning an old word, especially one whose original meaning has been altered, but is not necessarily now false.