ex-

prefix
/ɛks/

Etymology

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).

  1. derived from *eǵ-
  2. derived from ex

Definitions

  1. out of

    • borrowed from Latin: extract, expel, except, expression, exclusion
  2. outside

    • ex-directory; borrowed from Latin: exterior
  3. former (this meaning is probably a semantic extension from the sense of "out, away")

    • ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. 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-

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