ex-
prefixEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex-der. Middle French ex-bor. Middle English ex- English ex- From Middle English, from words borrowed from Middle French; from Latin ex (“out of, from”), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵ-, *eǵs- (“out”), *eǵʰs. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex, “out of, from”), Transalpine Gaulish ex- (“out”), Old Irish ess- (“out”), Old Church Slavonic изъ (izŭ, “out”), Russian из (iz, “from, out of”). For sense 3, compare sense 11 at Latin ex (indicates a change of state, (later) used before terms denoting an office to indicate that one has completed his term of office).
Definitions
out of
- borrowed from Latin: extract, expel, except, expression, exclusion
outside
- ex-directory; borrowed from Latin: exterior
former (this meaning is probably a semantic extension from the sense of "out, away")
- ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife
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Without, not possessing
Without, not possessing; lacking.
- excaudate, exstipulate
The neighborhood
- antonymin-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymintra-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymen-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymem-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymim-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymend-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymendo-antonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymento-antonym(s) of “outside”
- neighbore-
- neighborex
- neighborextra-
Derived
ex-directory, exsert, ex-actor, ex-atheist, ex-athlete, ex-Beatle, ex-boss, ex-CEO, ex-CFO, ex-Christian, ex-colleague, ex-consul, ex-councillor, ex-Czar, ex-dictator, ex-director, ex-doctor, ex-drummer, ex-emperor, ex-employee, ex-fighter, ex-fighter pilot, ex-friend, ex-governor, ex-guitarist, ex-Hindu, ex-Jesuit, ex-Jew, ex-Jewish, ex-judge, ex-Kaiser, ex-lover, ex-manager, ex-mayor, ex-member, ex-minister, ex-Muslim, ex-official, ex-organ grinder, ex-piano player · +13 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ex-. 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