pre-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pre-/priː/
▶prefix before (in time, place, order, degree, or importance): pre-adolescent.
– origin from L. prae-.
'pre-' also found in these Oxford entries:
Afrocentric
- anti-knock
- arch-
- artel
- canned
- Celt
- clip art
- convenience food
- cut up
- d
- Eurocentric
- grandfather clause
- grand siècle
- guinea
- hryvna
- intrude
- Ionian
- karaoke
- lip-sync
- marquee
- MC
- mellotron
- -penny
- piped music
- piscina
- playback
- postposition
- prae-
- pre-book
- prebuttal
- pre-Columbian
- pre-date
- prednisone
- pre-echo
- pre-eclampsia
- pre-embryo
- pre-eminent
- pre-empt
- pre-emption
- pre-establish
- pre-exist
- pre-ignition
- pre-industrial
- prelapsarian
- pre-loved
- pre-med
- preoccupy
- pre-op
- pre-owned
