Haemato-
//hiːmətəʊ// prefix
prefix ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Prefix
- 1 blood morpheme
"Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula … A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known"
Example
More examples"Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula … A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known"
Etymology
Representing the combining form of Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
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