prefix
Meaning 1
Beneath, under
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. underground, underneath, underpass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
under-
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Sound
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prefix
Meaning 2
To go from one side to the other; to progress along a path
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, morpheme
Examples
- e.g. understand, undergo, underbear, undertake
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Meaning 3
Less than, beneath in quantity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. underadditive, underage, underbound
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Meaning 4
Deficient, below what is correct, insufficient
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. underapply, underbill, underawe
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Meaning 5
Subordinate to
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. undersecretary, underling, underclass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- From Middle English under-, from Old English under-, from Proto-West Germanic *undar, from Proto-Germanic *under, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér (“below”) and *h1n̥tér (“inside”). For more, see under.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: թեր- (tʻer-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Danish: under- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Dutch: onder — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- French: sous- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- German: unter- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Greek: υπο- (ypo-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Norwegian Bokmål: under- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Norwegian Nynorsk: under- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Polish: pod- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Polish: niedo- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Portuguese: sub- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Russian: под- (pod-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Russian: недо- (nedo-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Spanish: sub- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Spanish: infra- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Spanish: so- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Spanish: sota- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Spanish: soto- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Ukrainian: під- (pid-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Ukrainian: недо- (nedo-) — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
- Unami: èkw- — under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently
Real reading context