Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBefore; physically in front of. · Synonym of anterior. · Before; earlier in time; beforehand.
From Middle English pre-, borrowed from Latin prae-, from the preposition prae (“before”).
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