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PREFIXES

Most Spanish prefixes come from ancient Latin prepositions.

However the class of prefijoides are Latin or Greek roots, used to form new words.

Morpheme: Prefix + Morpheme: Living life, revive, bad life, survive Céfalo (head) headless, two-headed, Bucephalus, many-headed.

pre-history pre-fixed pre-bond re-do re-mormado re-introduction super-market over-load

Super Hero sub-Terraneo subsoil infra-human infra-world dis-ability

dis-lying dis-locado bi-mo- bi-sexual bi-polar

Examples of prefixes

to-last to-text dis-order in-full a-Normal ex student former president extra big extra-ordinary

Series are not derived words, but compound words examples: airport, aeroflota, airborne, flight attendant

They can appear at the beginning or end of words, examples filosoviético / bibliophile, graphomania / photocopying, engulf, aerófago.

Due to its characteristics, we can say that there are two kinds of prefixes: the proper prefixes and prefijoides. The latter have a prefixes like character, but with some differences:

They have a lexical meaning, because they are actually coming from Latin substantive lexemes

The prefixes are moderately frequent morphological process in the languages of the world; about 40% of the world's languages used in some important measure prefixes as part of the morfología.2

is a morpheme class affixes that comes before a root or lexeme lexical lexical base to form a shape with different meanings (derivative prefix) or expressing different grammatical categories (inflectional prefix).