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prefix

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 15th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XXI:

     And so he made redy for the feste, and a day prefyxte that they shulde be wedded [...].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:

     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 16th c.]

prefix (plural prefixes)

1. That which is prefixed; especially one or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.

prefix (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) fixed, predetermined

Definizione dizionario prefix

	prefisso
	letters at the beginning of a word

prefissare

premettere

Altri significati:

That which is prefixed; especially one or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.

A morpheme that is placed at the start of a word.

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

put or fix before, or at the beginning of

(transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance. [from 15th c.]