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a combining form meaning “the dead,” “corpse,” “dead tissue,” used in the formation of compound words: necrology.

Also, especially before a vowel, necr-.

[Origin: < Gk nekro-, comb. form of nekrós dead person, corpse, (adj.) dead

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necro- or necr-
pref.

Dead body; corpse: necrophilia.
Death: necrobiosis.

[Greek nekro-, from nekros, corpse; see nek-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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from Gk. nekros "dead body," from PIE *nek- "kill" (cf. L. nex, gen. necis "violent death, murder," nocere "to harm, hurt," noxius "harmful;" O.Pers. vi-nathayatiy "he injures").

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