Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
- a prefix occurring before stems beginning with a vowel or h in loanwords from Greek, where it means “not,” “without,” “lacking” (anarchy; anecdote); used in the formation of compound words: anelectric.
- variant of ad- before n: announce.
- variant of ana- before a vowel: anion.
prefix
- not; withoutanaphrodisiac
privative prefix, from Greek an-, “not, without,” related to ne- and cognate with Sanskrit an-, Latin in-, Gothic and Old English un- (see un- (1)).
form of Latin ad- before -n- (see ad-).
pref.
- Variant ofa-