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prefixoid

noun

Etymology

From prefix + -oid, coined c. 1966 by Yakov Malkiel.

  1. derived from praefīxus
  2. derived from prefixer
  3. inherited from prefixen
  4. suffixed as prefixoid — “prefix + oid”

Definitions

  1. A wordinitial segment that does not have all characteristics of a prefix.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prefixoid. 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