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.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
prefix
Denoting an ancient or ancestral language (or form of a language), dating from a time before it came into contact with another language; particularly one which had considerable influence, or which later displaced it entirely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós, “true, original”), by analogy with Eteocretan, from Ἐτεόκρητες (Eteókrētes, literally “original Cretan”).
