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expresident

[eks-prez-i-duhnt] Origin

ex-pres·i·dent

[eks-prez-i-duhnt]
noun
a former president: ex-president of the company.

Origin:
1790–1800, Americanism

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ex-

1
a prefix meaning “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,” and sometimes imparting a privative or negative force or indicating a former title, status, etc.; freely used as an English formative: exstipulate; exterritorial; ex-president (former president); ex-member; ex-wife.
Also, e-, ef-.


Origin:
< Latin, combining form of ex, ē (preposition) out (of), from, beyond
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ex-
prefix, in Eng. meaning mainly "out of, from," but also "upwards, completely, deprive of, without," and "former;" from L. ex "out of," from PIE *eghs "out" (cf. Gaul. ex-, O.Ir. ess-, O.C.S. izu, Rus. iz). In some cases also from Gk. cognate ex, ek. It has stood on its own since 1929 as abbreviation
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for ex-wife, ex-husband, etc.
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ex- pref.
Outside; out of; away from: excementosis.

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