prefix ·Very common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Prefix

1. 1
   many morpheme

   "polydactyl, polyglot, polyvalent"

2. 2
   polymer morpheme

   "polyacetal, polyethene, polyether"

3. 3
   polyamory morpheme

   "polycule, polyphobia, polyfamily"

Synonyms

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;multipleiopleo

Antonyms

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monouni

Example

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"polydactyl, polyglot, polyvalent"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús (“much, many”). Unrelated to -poly.

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