Over the coarse of the trimester, I have spent a lot of the time in a class called Advance word power. In this class we learned many thing such as roots. But the newest thing that we have learned is prefixes. Prefixes are an affix placed before a base of a word. Below is a list of prefixes and their meaning;
a/an- Without
ab/abs - away
ad/ac/af/ag/an/ap/ar/ar/as/at- Toward
ambi- both
ante- before
anthro- man
anti- against
arm- weapon
audio- sound
auto- moving
biblio- book
bio- self
cata- down
circum- around
co- together
con/com- come together
cred- belief
de- down, away
demi- half
dia- across
dis/dys- bad
ex- out
extra/exter- outside
frate- brother
geo- earth
graph- record
hetero- different
homo- the same
hyper- excessive
ideo- idea
idios- one’s own
in- in/ not
inter- between
legis- law
liber- free
micro- small
mis - wrong
mono- one
mortis- death
neo- new
non- not
omni- all
pat- father
ped- walking
poly - many
post- after
pre - before
re- again
semi- part
sol- alone
subter- underground
super- extra
syn- together
tele- distance
trans- across
un- not
uni- one
vert/vers- all around
Austin
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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