'Prefix' definitions:
Definition of 'prefix'
From: WordNet
noun
An affix that is added in front of the word
verb
Attach a prefix to; "prefixed words" [ant: suffix]
Definition of 'Prefix'
From: GCIDE
- Prefix \Pre"fix\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]fixe.] That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prefix'
From: GCIDE
- Prefix \Pre*fix"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prefixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Prefixing.] [L. praefixus, p. p. of praefigere to fix or fasten before; prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. pr['e]fix fixed beforehand, determined, pr['e]fixer to prefix. See Fix.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently. [Obs.] " Prefixed bounds. " --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- And now he hath to her prefixt a day. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prefix'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidence,
- add,
- adjoin,
- affix,
- affixation,
- agglutinate,
- allomorph,
- allonge,
- annex,
- anteriority,
- append,
- appendix,
- attach,
- avant-propos,
- bold front,
- bound morpheme,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- breakthrough,
- burden,
- coda,
- codicil,
- commentary,
- complicate,
- conjoin,
- conjugation,
- cutting,
- declension,
- decorate,
- derivation,
- difference of form,
- display,
- enclitic,
- encumber,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- exordium,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- formative,
- free form,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- glue on,
- head,
- heading,
- hitch on,
- IC analysis,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- innovation,
- interlineation,
- interpolation,
- introduce,
- introduction,
- join with,
- lap,
- leap,
- marginalia,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- note,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- overture,
- paradigm,
- paste on,
- plus,
- postfix,
- postscript,
- postulate,
- preamble,
- preface,
- prefixation,
- prefixture,
- preliminary,
- prelude,
- premise,
- presupposition,
- priority,
- proclitic,
- proem,
- prolegomena,
- prolegomenon,
- prolepsis,
- prologize,
- prologue,
- proscenium,
- protasis,
- put with,
- radical,
- rider,
- root,
- saddle with,
- scholia,
- slap on,
- stem,
- subjoin,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- superadd,
- superpose,
- tack on,
- tag,
- tag on,
- tail,
- theme,
- unite with,
- verse,
- voluntary,
- window dressing,
- word-formation