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.
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prefix
Used to form past participles of verbs. Alternative spelling of y-.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme, obsolete
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prefix
A form of the prefix in-, used before gn, as in ignoble, ignominy, and ignore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Used to transform English words into words used by Rastafarians with a special meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Jamaica, morpheme
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prefix
Pertaining to the Internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Pertaining to digital devices and computer programs, especially those that are cutting-edge or fashionable, and those from Apple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Pertaining to computerized, electronic, digital, intelligent controls in products
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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History
From Middle English i-, y-, ȝe-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱó-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, near, by, along”). Cognate with Dutch ge-, Low German ge-, je-, e-, German ge-.
From Latin i-, assimilated form of in- used before gn-.
Etymology tree English internetwork English Internet English i- From Internet. Popularized in the name of the iMac line of computers (1998).
From intelligent
