semi-

前缀

英文释义

前缀
  1. half morpheme
    — semi-invalid.
  2. partial, incomplete morpheme
  3. somewhat, rather, quasi- morpheme
    — Nothing like a nice hot ethnic dish before you go to see that semi-expensive, semi-meaningful Off-Broadway show.

词形变化

sem- alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
Borrowed from Latin semi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi/*sēmi-. Cognate to English sam, and to hemi- (via Ancient Greek).
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