ex-

Etymology
From, from words borrowed from ; from , from , ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Prefix

 * 1) out of
 * borrowed from Latin: extract, expel, except, expression, exclusion
 * 1) outside
 * ex-directory; borrowed from Latin: exterior
 * 1) former
 * ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife
 * 1)  Lacking, not possessing.
 * excaudate, exstipulate
 * excaudate, exstipulate

Usage notes

 * Sometimes the in  is elided before certain constants, being reduced to  (as, e.g., in  and  which are borrowed from Latin).
 * Words derived from in the sense of former are usually formed with a hyphen. Using hyphen is recommended by GPO manual.

Derived terms
Derived words without entries:


 * ex-actor
 * ex-atheist
 * ex-athlete
 * ex-Beatle
 * ex-boss
 * ex-CEO
 * ex-CFO
 * ex-Christian
 * ex-colleague
 * ex-consul
 * ex-councillor
 * ex-Czar
 * ex-dictator
 * ex-director
 * ex-doctor
 * ex-drummer
 * ex-emperor
 * ex-employee
 * ex-fighter
 * ex-fighter pilot
 * ex-friend
 * ex-governor
 * ex-guitarist
 * ex-Hindu
 * ex-Jesuit
 * ex-Jew
 * ex-Jewish
 * ex-judge
 * ex-Kaiser
 * ex-lover
 * ex-manager
 * ex-mayor
 * ex-minister
 * ex-Muslim
 * ex-official
 * ex-organ grinder
 * ex-piano player
 * ex-pilot
 * ex-policeman
 * ex-police officer
 * ex-praetor
 * ex-priest
 * ex-programmer
 * ex-scientist
 * ex-Scientologist
 * ex-senator
 * ex-sergeant
 * ex-soldier
 * ex-statistician
 * ex-student

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: eks-
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γενόμενος
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ex-
 * Indonesian: eks-
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Persian: اکس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: ex-
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Prefix

 * 1)  former, but still living

Etymology
<

Prefix

 * 1)  ex- former

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Prefix

 * 1)  former
 * 2)  out

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Etymology
The preposition used in combination.

Etymology
.

Pronunciation

 * , (without /j/),  (with /j/)

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Usage notes
Always used with a hyphen.

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1)  former

Prefix

 * , former, past