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ab-

prefix

Etymology

From Latin ab-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”) (English off, of). Doublet of apo- and off-.

  1. derived from *h₂epo✻
  2. borrowed from ab-

Definitions

  1. From.

    • ab- + sorb → absorb

  2. Away from

    Away from; outside of.

    • ab- + normal → abnormal
    • ab- + axial → abaxial

  3. A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system

    A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.

The neighborhood

  • synonymout-away from
  • synonymoff-away from
  • synonymapo-away from
  • synonymde-away from
  • synonymawayaway from
  • synonymoffaway from

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ab-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA