Meaning of alpha privative | Babel Free

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1. The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English, all traceable back to Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
2. Either the aforementioned privative a or the Greek ἀ- (a-) itself (from which the English descendant derives).
3. A word formed using such prefixes.

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