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:

A word thus formed by breaking up an existing combining form, prefix, root, or suffix should also have a name.
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-.
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 .
Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra- (from the Latin contra meaning against), or possibly a contradictonym.