Prefix and Suffix Meanings

mort

• life

• death

• birth

• existence

biblio

• book

• library

• author

• novel

cept

• taken, seized

• given, released

• lost, forgotten

• found, discovered

trans

• around, over

• across, through

• under, beneath

• before, after

pent

• three

• four

• five

• six

pro

• forward

• backward

• sideways

• upward

hetero

• same

• different

• other

• similar

retro

• forward

• backward

• sideways

• upward

-ive

• of or that which does something

• a suffix indicating a noun

• a term used in mathematics

• a prefix indicating negation

micro

• tiny

• small

• large

• huge