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sym-

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sym-/sɪm/

▶prefix variant spelling of syn-. assimilated before b, m, p (as in symbiosis, symmetry, symphysis).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
syn- /sɪn/ (also sym- before b, m, and p; syl- before l)

▶prefix united; acting together: synchrony.

– origin from Gk sun ‘with’.

'sym-' also found in these Oxford entries:

sympatric - syn-

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