di-

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Prefix

 * 1)  Two.
 * is any salt or ester having two acetate groups, is any alkene having two double bonds,  is a state under the rule of two people; the form of government of such state,  is having two rays
 * 1)  Double, twice the quantity.
 * is the presence of a cleft or doubled tongue, is doubly catalectic, at both the middle and the end of the verse,  is a double choree
 * 1)  A pair.
 * is of or pertaining to two blocks together, is a bound pair of mesons,  is a pair of jets
 * 1)  Both, possessing two distinct (possibly opposing) qualities.
 * is having both metakinetic and mesokinetic joints, is the theory that statements can be both true and false at the same time and in the same sense,  is describing a function that is analytic or antianalytic with regards to both the domain and codomain

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: bi-,, , tupla-
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , doppel-
 * Hindi:
 * Italian: di-
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Malay:
 * Polish:, dy-
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: двух-, дву-, двое-,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Prefix

 * : split, to split;.
 * is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts, is to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions

Etymology 3
Borrowed from, from.

Prefix

 * : across or through,.
 * is capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light, is an electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, ie its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field

Derived terms












Etymology
.

Prefix

 * 1) two

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) Meaning two, twice, or double.

Etymology
Derived from.

Prefix

 * 1) di-

Etymology
(see 🇨🇬), ultimately from.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Prefix

 * 1) di-

Etymology
From, from , from Late , from Early , from , a metathesis of , from. .

Etymology 1
From.

Prefix

 * 1) de-

Etymology 2
From.

Usage notes
Occurs before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, sc, sp, st, v, and occasionally before consonantal i.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from.

Prefix

 * 1) Two, double;.

Etymology
From Early.

Usage notes
Frequently but erroneously called "passive voice", can optionally be accompanied with, and is exclusively used in the third-person.

Etymology 1
Represents multiple homophonous thematic and aspectual prefixes of position I and VI, whose exact meaning and etymology remain mostly speculative.

Prefix
► Navajo verbs with disjunct prefix di-
 * 1) fire, near or into it

Young and Morgan (1987) identify 14 or so thematic prefixes, among others:
 * 1) fire, light
 * 2) arms and legs
 * 3) extension, elongated shape
 * 4) noise, sound, oral, food, sensory
 * 5) color (see also )
 * 6) relinquishment, relief
 * 7) sanctity
 * 1) color (see also )
 * 2) relinquishment, relief
 * 3) sanctity
 * 1) relinquishment, relief
 * 2) sanctity
 * 1) sanctity
 * 1) sanctity
 * 1) sanctity

Four modal-aspectual uses are also distinguished: ► Navajo verbs with prefix di-

Etymology 2
Probably cognate with a prefix of similar shape occurring in other Athabascan languages a reflexive possessive pronoun.

Probably cognate with classifier marking passive and reflexive verbs.

Etymology
From. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Prefix

 * 1)  two, twice or double

Etymology
From. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From or.

Prefix

 * 1) dis-

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) non-; un-; de-

Etymology
From. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Etymology
, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Prefix

 * 1) without, -less, de-, a-,
 * 1) without, -less, de-, a-,
 * 1) without, -less, de-, a-,
 * 1) without, -less, de-, a-,

Usage notes
The negative prefix indicates a lack of something and is most often attached to a noun in a similar manner to English, e.g. , ,. In contrast, and  simply denote the negative form of the following root rather than the lack of it.

Pronoun

 * , their
 * , his, her
 * , his, her

Pronoun

 * 1)   when preceded by a root-initial i