pre-

• prae- (archaic, technical, or pedantic)
• præ- (archaic, technical, or pedantic)

From Middle English pre-, borrowed from Latin prae-, from the preposition prae (“before”).

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pre-

1. Before; physically in front of; (anatomy) anterior.
2. Before; earlier in time.

• This prefix is usually prefixed to words without using a hyphen (for example, prefix, predate). A hyphen is used in the following cases:
  • Where excluding a hyphen would be likely to lead to a mispronunciation of the word because "pre" appears not to be a complete syllable (for example, "pre-yaw course", which could be read as "prey aw course" if unhyphenated).
  • Always in British English before the letter e (for example, pre-existing)
  • Often in British English before other vowels (for example, pre-operative);
  • Always in all varieties of English before a character other than a letter (for example, pre-1960).

• ante-
• before
• fore-
• in front of

• after-
• post-

• fore
• pre

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, Rep, Rep., per, per-, per., rep

From Latin prae- (“before”).

pre-

1. Before; used to form words meaning "in front of" or "before".
2. Before; used to form words meaning superiority or excellence.

Borrowed from English pre-, French pré-, Italian pre-, Spanish pre-, Russian пред- (pred-), пре- (pre-)

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1. pre-

From Latin prae- (“before”).

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1. pre-

From Latin prae

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1. pre-

• “pre-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin prae

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1. pre-

• “pre-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• pre- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• pré-

From Latin prae-.

pre-

1. pre- (before)

• pri-

• IPA^(key): /pre/

From Latin per-, with a few cases influenced by prae.

pre-

1. used with verbs to indicate repetition or insistence

Examples: presăra, prelinge. Compare also prevedea, priveghea

Borrowed from French pre-, Latin prae-.

1. pre-

• ante-

From Proto-Slavic *per-.

pre- (Cyrillic spelling пре-)

1. Prefix prepended to adjectives and adverbs to denote excess of a feature; too, excessively, over-

   dug / predug ― long / overlong

2. Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate an action being done excessively, again or differently; re-, over-

   trpati / pretrpati ― to stuff / to overstuff

3. Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate change in form, especially through partition

   prepoloviti ― split up

4. Prefix prepended to imperfective verbs to make them perfective; to indicate that the action has been carried out

   Spavat ću u hotelu. Prespavao sam u hotelu. ― I will sleep in a hotel. I slept (over) in a hotel.

The suffix matches the usage of all mentioned prefixes in English for all adjectives and majority of verbs. When "pre-" may cause confusion or cannot be prefixed to a verb in order to indicate repetition, opet or ponovo ("again" / "anew") followed by the verb construction is used instead, e.g. "redo" would be "ponovno uraditi" ("do again") rather than preraditi ("rework").

From Latin prae- (“before”), from the preposition prae.

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• post-
• pos-