Fred Helenius found the word: "privative". Thanks, Fred! Jim On Friday, July 3, 2015, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
There's a single word like "anaphrastic" describing affixes that negate. That's what I'm struggling to recall.
(I just made up the word "anaphrastic"; it probably means something, but that's irrelevant. The point is that the word I'm thinking of has the same sort of, dare I say, "cool"-ness, for those of us who like English words with southern Mediterranean flavoring.)
Jim
On Friday, July 3, 2015, Dan Asimov <asimov@msri.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','asimov@msri.org');>> wrote:
I confess, sometimes I wonder if all math-fun members are familiar with the concept of googling.
—Dan
On Jul 3, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
lots of hits for "negative prefix"
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:10 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com <mailto:jamespropp@gmail.com>> wrote:
I recently accidentally learned, and then carelessly forgot, a word (based on Greek roots perhaps) that describes prefixes and/or suffixes that negate the word that they're attached to.
What are the word(s) you know that have this meaning?
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