ex
2 letters · E X · Scrabble-style score 9 · Words With Friends-style score 9
What it meant in 1913
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), public domain.
. A prefix from the latin preposition, ex , akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of , out , proceeding from . Hence, in composition, it signifies out of , as, in ex hale, ex clude; off , from , or out . as in ex scind; beyond , as, in ex cess, ex ceed, ex cel ; and sometimes has a privative sense of without , as in ex albuminuos, ex sanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f , as in ef fuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b , d , g , l , m , n , r , and v , as in e bullient, e manate, e normous, etc.
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