prefix
Not; without.
‘atheistic’- ‘atypical’
Origin
From Greek.
prefix
1To; toward.
‘aside’- ‘ashore’
- 1.1In the process of (an activity)
- ‘a-hunting’
- 1.2In a specified state or manner.‘asleep’
- ‘aloud’
- 1.3On.
- ‘afoot’
- 1.4In.
- ‘nowadays’
Origin
Old English, unstressed form of on.
prefix
variant spelling of ad- assimilated before sc, sp, and st (as in ascend, aspire, and astringent)
prefix
1Of.
- ‘anew’
2Utterly.
- ‘abash’
Origin
Sense 1 is an unstressed form of of; sense 2 is from Anglo-Norman French a- (Old French e-, es-), from Latin ex.
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