prefix

• præfix (obsolete)
• prefixe (for the verb; obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French prefixer (verb) resp. Late Latin praefixum (noun), both from Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)).

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːfɪks/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːfɪks/, /pɹiːˈfɪks/, /pɹɛˈfɪks/

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prefix (plural prefixes)

1. Something placed before another
   1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.

      Synonyms: foresyllable (rare), prefixum (archaic)

      Antonym: suffix

      Hypernym: affix (broad sense)

   2. (telecommunications) A set of 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 0800 prefix is a toll-free number.

      Add the prefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad

   3. A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.
   4. (computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.

      The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

• Though much less common, a plural form prefices is seen as well, apparently formed by analogy with index–indices, appendix–appendices, and so on, but it is not a standard plural and has no basis in the Latin origin of the term.

• forefix (rare)

prefix (third-person singular simple present prefixes, present participle prefixing, simple past and past participle prefixed)

1. (transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book XXI:

     he took the Quene Gueneuer and sayd playnly that he wolde wedde hyr / whyche was his vnkyls wyf and his faders wyf / And soo he made redy for the feest / And a day prefyxt that they shold be wedded / wherfore quene Gweneuer was passyng huey / But she durst not dyscouer hyr herte

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     But the danger was, that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits unto his desire […].

2. (transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start. [from 16^thc.]

• Category:English prefixes

• prefix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• prefix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prefix in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• perfix

Borrowed from Late Latin praefixum, from Latin praefixus.

prefix m (plural prefixos)

1. prefix

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛfɪks]
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Hyphenation: pre‧fix

prefix m inan

1. prefix

   Synonym: předpona

• prefixový

• prefix in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• prefix in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /ˈpreːfɪks/

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Borrowed from post-Classical Latin praefixum, nominal use of the neuter form of Classical Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) — the noun directly thence, whereas the adjective via French préfixe.

• praefix (archaic)

prefix n or m (plural prefixen, diminutive prefixje n)

1. prefix

   Synonym: voorvoegsel

   Antonyms: suffix, achtervoegsel

prefix (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) fixed, predetermined

Borrowed from Late Latin praefixum, from Latin praefixus

prefix m

1. (grammar) prefix

• sufix

Borrowed from French préfixe, from Latin praefixus.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈfiks/

prefix n (plural prefixe)

1. prefix

   Antonym: suffix