preformant

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noun

Plural noun:

preformants

1.
(archaic, rare)Chiefly in Semitic languages: Synonym of preformative (“a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word”).

Nguồn gốc từ

From pre- + la:fōrmāns (fashioning, forming, shaping) + -ant, modelled after prefix. Fōrmāns is the present participle of fōrmō (to fashion, form, format, shape), from fōrma (further etymology uncertain) + -ō.