Standard Lemma guide
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prefix
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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prefix
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Avoiding an action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Neutral in quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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prefix
prevocalic form of nona-
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h1óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- From Middle English non- (“not, lack of, failure to”), from Middle English non (“no, not any; not, not at all”, literally “none”) and Old English nān- (prefix), both from Old English nān (“no, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, zero”), see none. Merged with and reinforced by Middle English non- (“not”), from Old French non- and Medieval Latin nōn (“not”), from Old Latin noinu, noinom, from ne oinom (“not one”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1néwn̥ Proto-Indo-European *h1newn̥(n)ós Proto-Italic *nowenos Latin nōnus English non- From Latin nōnus (“ninth”).
Across languages
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
