Sur-
//sɚ// prefix
prefix ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Prefix
- 1 A syncopic variant of super-. morpheme
"surreach, surrebutter, surreine, surreined, surrejoinder, surreply, surreverently, surroyal"
- 2 A stem in pre-Christian Lithuanian names morpheme
Example
More examples"surreach, surrebutter, surreine, surreined, surrejoinder, surreply, surreverently, surroyal"
Etymology
From Middle English sur-, from Old French sur-, sour-, sor-, soure-, a syncopic form of the Latin super. Doublet of super-, over-, and hyper-.
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