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-1, ef-.


Origin:
< Latin, combining form of ex, ē (preposition) out (of), from, beyond

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ex-1
 
prefix
1.  out of; outside of; from: exclosure; exurbia
2.  former: ex-wife
 
[from Latin, from ex (prep), identical in meaning and origin with Greek ex, ek; see ec-]

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ex-2
 
combining form
a variant of exo- : exergonic

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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
for ex-wife, ex-husband, etc.
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ex- pref.
Outside; out of; away from: excementosis.

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