Prefixes Flashcards
What does the Greek prefix “A” mean?
Not, no. Examples are: Asocial, anarchy
What does the Latin prefix “A” mean?
Away from. Example against, alone
What does the Latin prefix “AB” mean?
from; away from. Examples are abnormal, absent.
What does the Latin prefix “AD” mean?
Toward; advance, advent
What does the latin prefix “Alter” mean?
another; Alternate, Alter ego
What does the greek prefix “Amphi” mean?
Around, Both; Amphitheater, Amphibian
What does the Greek prefix “Ana” mean?
up; Anagram, Analysis
What does the Latin prefix “Ante” mean?
Before; Antecedent, Anterior
What does the greek prefix “Anti” mean?
Against; Anticlimax, Antiacid
What does the Latin prefix “Circum” mean?
Around; Circumstances, Circumfrance
What does the Latin prefix “Co” mean?
With, Together; Coauthor, Copilot
What does the Latin prefix “Con” mean?
With Together; Conic (the curved intersection of a cone), Conical (having the shape of a cone)
What does the Latin prefix “Contra” mean?
Against; contraband, contradict
What does the Latin prefix “De” mean?
down, down from; Defrost, Decompress
What does the Greek prefix “Dia” mean?
Through; Diagonal, Dialouge
What does the latin prefix “Dis” mean?
Apart, Away from; Disperse, Disinherit
What does the Greek prefix “Dys” mean?
bad; Dysfunction, Dyslexia
What does the latin prefix “E” mean?
Out of; Expel, Exit
What does the Greek prefix “Ec” mean?
Outside; Eccentric, Ectopic
What does the greek prefix “Em” mean?
In, within; Emblem, Empathy
What does he greek prefix “En” mean?
In, Within; Entrance, Energy
What does the greek prefix “Epi” mean?
Upon; Epidemic, Epidermis
What does the latin prefix “Ex” mean?
Out of, Away From; Exit, Expel
What does the greek prefix “Hyper” mean?
Over; Hyperactive, Hypersensitive
What does the Latin prefix “in” mean?
in, into, on, against, not; Infringe, Indecisive
What does the latin prefix “Ob” mean?
Against; Oblong, Obdurate
what does the latin prefix “Omni” mean
Every, all; omnipresent, Omniscient
What does the Latin prefix “Per” mean?
Through; Perfidy, Permeate
what does the greek prefix “Peri” mean?
around; Peripatetic, Periscope
what does the latin prefix “Post” mean?
after; Post Script, Post-Mortem
What does the latin prefix “Pre” mean?
before; Prefix, Preview
What does the latin prefix “re” mean?
Back, Again; repel, Recor
What does the Latin prefix “retro” mean?
Backwards; retrogressive,
What does the latin prefix sub mean?
beneath; subtract, Submarine
What does the latin prefix “Super, Sur” mean?
above; Superimpose
What does the greek prefix “sym” mean?
With, together; sympathy, Symbiotic
what does the greek prefix “Syn” mean?
With, Together; Synonym
What does the latin prefix “Trans” mean?
across; transport, Transcend
What does the greek prefix “Tele” mean?
Distant; Telegraph, television
