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 +[[Image:The Big Swallow.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This page '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is part of the [[linguistics]] series.<br>
 +<small>Illustration: a close-up of a [[mouth]] in the film ''[[The Big Swallow]]'' (1901)</small>]]
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-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007]+A '''prefix''' is a type of [[affix]] attached to a [[stem (linguistics)|stem]] which modifies the meaning of that stem.
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 +The word "prefix" is itself made up of the stem ''fix'' (meaning "attach" in this case), and the prefix ''pre-'', meaning "before", both of which are derived from [[Latin]] [[root (linguistics)|root]]s.
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 +==See also==
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 +*[[English prefixes]]
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 +== Examples ==
 +[[anti]] - [[inter-]] - [[meta]] - [[non]] - [[pan]] - [[para-]] - [[un-]]
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A prefix is a type of affix attached to a stem which modifies the meaning of that stem.

The word "prefix" is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach" in this case), and the prefix pre-, meaning "before", both of which are derived from Latin roots.

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Examples

anti - inter- - meta - non - pan - para- - un-



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