Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Together: the root is done together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
Belonging to the same group indicated by the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
Synchronous or simultaneous with the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
A fellow kind of the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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To do the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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To do the root.
Intensifying the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Indicating a common origin:
Found with. What is found with the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Indicating a common origin:
From, coming from the root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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To surround or adorn with
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Uniform, or made to be the same as.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of:
constructed, artificial
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of:
hypothetical, fictional
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of:
related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
Etymology tree Old French con-bor. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con-bor. Middle English con- English con- Inherited from Middle English con-, from Latin con-, from cum (“with”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh3- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō Latin cōnstruōder. Latin cōnstrūctusbor. English construct Proto-Germanic *-ōd- Old English -ode Middle English -ede English -ed English constructed Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵhwéh2s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *linguāticum Old French languagebor. Middle English langage English language English conlangbf. English con- Back-formation from conlang, short for constructed language.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
