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Noun
  1. 1
    A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
  2. 2
    (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed wordnet
  3. 3
    Alternative form of root: the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. alt-of, alternative

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