Prefixes and suffixes in English
Prefixes and suffixes are sets of letters that are added at the beginning or end of another word. They are not words in themselves and cannot stand on their own in a sentence: if they are printed by themselves, they have a script before or after them.
Prefixes
The Latin term "praefixus", which can be translated as "on position", is the word from which the current "prefix" derives that we will now proceed to analyze. Specifically, that is made up of two distinct parts: "pre", which is equivalent to "before", and the verb "figere", which is synonymous with "fix".
A prefix is ​​an affix, a grammatical element that adheres to a term to change its meaning. In the case of prefixes, they are put before the word that you want to modify. Suffixes, on the other hand, are the affixes that are placed at the end of the word.
The prefix, therefore, is a prefix affix that creates a derived word. In this way, the prefix inter can be added to a term to specify that it is in the middle of something. For example: intermediate, intercom ("I want the intermediate size box", "We have to call the technical department: the intercom does not work".
Prefixes are added at the beginning of an existing word to create a new word with a different meaning. For example:
word prefix new word
happy
unhappy
multicultural cultural
work overwork
cyberspace
Market Supermarket
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