Borrowed fromLate Latin praefīxum Latin praefīxus praefīgō ( “ I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity) ” ) (fromprae- ( “ before ” ) +fīgō ( “ I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix ” ) ), equivalent topre- -fix Doublet of the archaic synonymprefixum
prefix (plural prefixes
Something placed before another( grammar , linguistic morphology ) morpheme added to the beginning of a word tomodify its meaning, for example as,pre- prefix ,con- conjure ,re- reheat , etc.Synonyms: ( rare ) foresyllable ( archaic ) prefixum Antonym: suffix Hypernyms: ( broad sense ) affix morpheme 2022 November 18, Ian Sample, “Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small”, inThe Guardian [1] The chosenprefixes won the vote in part because they start with the only two letters left in the alphabet that are not already used in measurement. The b for “bronto” is already used for bytes and h for “hella” is used for hecto, theprefix for 100.
( telecommunications ) digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline ,mobile ,toll-free ,premium rate etc.)in the UK, a number with an 0800prefix is a toll-free number.
Add theprefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad
Atitle added to a person's name, such asMr. Dr. ( computing ) initial segment of astring of characters.The string "abra" is both aprefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
Though much less common, a plural formprefices index–indices appendix–appendices morpheme at the beginning of a word
Abkhaz:please add this translation if you can Afrikaans:voorvoegsel (af) ,prefiks Aghwan:please add this translation if you can Aklanon:please add this translation if you can Albanian:parashtesë (sq) f Arabic:سَابِقَة f ( sābiqa ) ,بَادِئَة f ( bādiʔa ) Aragonese:prefixo m Armenian:նախածանց (hy) ( naxacancʻ ) Asturian:prefixu (ast) m Belarusian:прыста́ўка f ( prystáwka ) Bengali:উপসর্গ (bn) ( upośorgo ) Breton:rakger (br) m Bulgarian:предста́вка (bg) f ( predstávka ) ,префи́кс (bg) m ( prefíks ) Burmese:ရှေ့ဆက် (my) ( hre.hcak ) Catalan:prefix (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:前綴 / 前缀 (zh) ( qiánzhuì ) ,詞頭 / 词头 (zh) ( cítóu ) Circassian:West Circassian:please add this translation if you can Corsican:please add this translation if you can Czech:předpona (cs) f prefix (cs) m Danish:præfiks (da) n Dutch:voorvoegsel (nl) n prefix (nl) n Esperanto:antaŭafikso antaŭvortero prefikso (eo) Estonian:prefiks Faroese:forskoyti Finnish:etuliite (fi) ,prefiksi (fi) French:préfixe (fr) m Friulian:please add this translation if you can Galician:prefixo (gl) m Georgian:პრეფიქსი ( ṗrepiksi ) ,თავსართი ( tavsarti ) German:Präfix (de) ,Vorsilbe (de) f Greek:πρόθημα (el) n ( próthima ) Hebrew:תְּחִלִּית (he) f ( tkhilít ) Hindi:उपसर्ग (hi) m ( upsarg ) Hungarian:előtag (hu) Icelandic:forskeyti (is) n Ido:prefixo (io) Indonesian:awalan (id) Irish:réimír (ga) f Italian:prefisso (it) m Japanese:接頭辞 (ja) ( せっとうじ, settōji ) ,接頭語 (ja) ( せっとうご, settōgo ) Kazakh:префикс ( prefiks ) Khmer:បុព្វបទ ( boppĕəʼbɑt ) Korean:접두사 (ko) ( jeopdusa ) ,접두어 ( jeopdueo ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:پێشگِر (ckb) ( pêşgir ) Laki:پێشوەن ( pêşwen ) Northern Kurdish:pêşgir (ku) Kyrgyz:префикс ( prefiks ) Lao:ຄຳນຳໜ້າ ( kham nam nā ) Latin:praeverbium n praefīxum n ( Late ) Latvian:priedēklis (lv) m Lithuanian:priešdėlis m Macedonian:претставка f ( pretstavka ) ,префикс m ( prefiks ) Malay:awalan (ms) Malayalam:ഉപസർഗം (ml) ( upasaṟgaṁ ) Māori:pīmua kūmua Mongolian:угтвар (mn) ( ugtvar ) ᠤᠭᠲᠤᠪᠤᠷᠢ ( uɣtuburi ) Norwegian:Bokmål:prefiks (no) n forstavelse m forstaving m or f Nynorsk:prefiks n førefeste n forled m førelekk m forstaving f førestaving f Occitan:please add this translation if you can Pali:please add this translation if you can Pashto:سرينه f ( sariná ) ,مختاړی m ( mǝxtãṛay ) Persian:پیشوند (fa) ( pišvand ) Plautdietsch:Väasilb f Polish:przedrostek (pl) m prefiks (pl) m Portuguese:prefixo (pt) m Romanian:prefix (ro) n Russian:приста́вка (ru) f ( pristávka ) ,пре́фикс (ru) m ( préfiks ) Sanskrit:please add this translation if you can Scottish Gaelic:ro-leasachan m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:прѐфикс m пре́дметак m Latin:prèfiks (sh) m prédmetak (sh) m Slovak:predpona f prefix m Slovene:predpona (sl) f prefiks m Spanish:prefijo (es) m Swahili:kiambishi awali Swedish:prefix (sv) n förstavelse (sv) c Tagalog:unlapi (tl) Tajik:префикс ( prefiks ) ,пешванд ( pešvand ) Tamil:முன்னொட்டு (ta) ( muṉṉoṭṭu ) Tetum:please add this translation if you can Thai:อุปสรรค (th) ( ùp-bpà-sàk ) Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Turkish:önek (tr) ,ön ek (tr) Turkmen:prefiks Ukrainian:пре́фікс (uk) m ( préfiks ) Urdu:سابقہ (ur) Uyghur:please add this translation if you can Uzbek:prefiks (uz) Vietnamese:tiền tố (vi) Volapük:foyümot (vo) Welsh:rhagddodiad (cy) m
telecommunications: set of digits placed before a telephone number
title added to a person's name
computing: initial segment of a string of characters
FromMiddle English prefixen Middle French prefixer [ 1] Latin praefīxus praefīgō ( “ I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity) ” ) (fromprae- ( “ before ” ) +fīgō ( “ I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix ” ) ), equivalent topre- -fix
IPA (key ) : /ˈpɹiːfɪks/ ,/pɹiːˈfɪks/ ,/pɹɛˈfɪks/ Rhymes:-ɪks prefix (third-person singular simple present prefixes present participle prefixing simple past and past participle prefixed
( transitive ) determine beforehand; toset in advance.[from 15th c.] 2002 Signs of Struggle , page23 :It is important to realize that pregivenness orprefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
( transitive ) put orfix before , or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.[from 16th c.] 1964 Joseph R. Levenson , “Taipings Storm the Confucian Heaven”, inConfucian China and Its Modern Fate ,volume 2 ,University of California Press ,→OCLC page104 :For the classical ranks, he says, were taken from the nomenclature of the family system (indeed, they are kinship terms as well as political ones), and this arrangement was confused and inelegant. But the Taiping terms are allprefixed with 'T’ien'[translating天 ( Tiān ) ] —the capital isT’ien-ching [translating天京 ( Tiānjīng ) ] , soldiers areT’ien-ping [translating天兵 ( Tiānbīng ) ] , officials areT’ien-kuan [translating天官 —for theT’ien-wang ’s[translating天王 ( Tiānwáng ) ] authority derives from theT’ien-fu [translating天父 ( Tiānfù ) ] . put or fix before, or at the beginning of
set or appoint beforehand
prefix Wikipedia “prefix ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “prefix ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC Borrowed fromLate Latin praefīxum Latin praefīxus
prefix m plural prefixos
prefix IPA (key ) : [ˈprɛfɪks] Rhymes:-ɪks Hyphenation:pre‧fix prefix m inan
prefix Synonym: předpona Declension ofprefix (hard masculine inanimate )
Borrowed from post-ClassicalLatin praefīxum Latin praefīxus praefīgō ( “ I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity) ” ) — the noun directly thence, whereas the adjectivevia French préfixe
prefix n or m plural prefixen diminutive prefixje n
prefix Synonym: voorvoegsel Antonyms: suffix achtervoegsel (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
prefix (notcomparable )
( obsolete ) fixed ,predetermined Borrowed fromLate Latin praefīxum Latin praefīxus
prefix m
( grammar ) prefix Borrowed fromFrench préfixe Latin praefīxus
prefix n plural prefixe
prefix Antonym: sufix prefix n
( grammar ) prefix 
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