Example sentences for: prefix

How can you use “prefix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 14-15 of the same issue), where, without getting involved in complicated matters, the author explains almost fifty Greek-related English words just by nothing a prefix and various stems.

  • One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .

  • 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.

  • A word thus formed by breaking up an existing combining form, prefix, root, or suffix should also have a name.

  • Copy is a blend of the prefix, co `with' + Latin opia `abundance.


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