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a prefix, meaning “beyond,” “more than,” “by,” “past,” occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (
preterit
), and used in the formation of compound words (
preterlegal
).
Origin:
< L
praeter-,
prefixal use of
praeter
(adv. and prep.); akin to
pre-
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