Sentence examples for prefix was from inspiring English sources

It seems probable that the suffixed element had a demonstrative force when a prefix was present.

The club has been based in the London area since 1867, although the "London" prefix was dropped from their name in June this year.

But since the prefix multi- means "more than two," a multiple prefix was tacked on the stem word that didn't deserve that treatment.

He was born Thomas Quincey, in Manchester in 1785; the prefix was added when he was around eleven, in one of his mother's many attempts to suggest an aristocratic lineage.

The actor's email address prefix was recently revealed via the Sony hack to be the quite abstract 'PoeticalMotion', and Gawker has unearthed a YouTube account with the very same monicker.

If you have heard of Derry (or Londonderry, as it is alternately known; the prefix was added by 17th-century British transplants), the image that comes to mind is most likely a rather stark one.

And talk at the new centers is only of employment; the "un" prefix is unwelcome.

"The Mc prefix is well established to be McDonald's," a company spokesman said.

At the very least, a change of prefix is always refreshing.

(The prefix epi- most often means "on" or "over"; pen, not a prefix, is from the Latin paene, "almost").

The "cis" prefix is frequently preferred by transgender campaigners over terms such as "biological" or "genetic".