DE
\dˈə], \dˈə], \d_ˈə]\
Definitions of DE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A prefix carrying often a privative or negative sense; denoting away from, cessation; it has sometimes an intensive force.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Latin prefix signifying down or away from. It sometimes negatives and sometimes intensifles the sense. It has often the force of dis in words through the French.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
