Inseparable verb prefix indicating removing something from the object, from, away from, off. · Inseparable verb prefix indicating a conversion to the opposite, a reversion. · Inseparable verb prefix indicating the beginning of something.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder. Proto-Germanic *anda- Proto-West Germanic *anda- Old High German ant- Middle High German ent- German ent- From Middle High German ent-, int-, ant-, from Old High German int-, ant-, anta-, from Proto-West Germanic *anda-, from Proto-Germanic *andi-, *anþi-, representative of a combining form of…
used to make antonyms (similarly to English prefixes un-, dis-) · reversal, removal (examples: défaire, découvrir, dégeler) · causation, setting in motion (examples: déclencher, démarrer, décoller)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Middle French des- Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-lbor. French dé- * Partially inherited from Middle French des-, from Old French des-, from a conflation of Latin dis- (“apart”) (ultimately from…
used to form words that have an opposing sense: un-, in- · used to form verbs that have a sense of undoing an action: de-, dis-, un- · used to express a pejorative sense
köken: In most cases, this prefix stems from Latin ex- (see ex). In some cases, it stems from Latin dis-.
s- + fatto (“done”, “made”) → sfatto (“(of a bed) unmade”)
un-; de-; dis- (forms verbs indicating the reversal of the prefixed verb) · un- (forms nouns indicating the lack or opposite of the prefixed noun) · misspelling of dis-
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese des-, from Latin dis-.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Borrowed from French mal- in its secondary sense of denoting the opposite.