EX-

Definition: EX-

EX-

1. A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EX-" was first used: originally from the Latin expression "ex" meaning "out of." This expression stood alone in 1929 as an abbreviation for "ex-wife". (references)

Crosswords: EX-

Dutch (ex-, former), French (ex-), German (ex-, former), Latin (affray, allege, astonish, away, cheat, effort, effrontery, elongation, escape, escheat, exchange, excoriate, exhume, extradition, off, out, out of, reveille, scald, scorn, scour, scourge, sewer, soar, square, squash, svelte, vent, without), Portuguese (exacerbate), Spanish (ex-), Swedish (ex-).

Afrikaan

voormalige (former, last, previous, prior). (various references)

Albanian

ish- (ci-devant, former, late, past). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, fore, foregoing, former, harbinger, last, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, prior, quondam, race). (various references)

Bulgarian 

от (at, by, for, from, in, of, off, on, out, out of, over, since, than, through, to, with), без- (un-). (various references)

Chinese 

前任 (former, predecessor). (various references)

Dutch

vroeger (ahead, former, formerly, last, previous, previously, prior), voormalig (former), oud- (former), gewezen (former), ex- (former). (various references)

Esperanto

eks- (former). (various references)

French

ancien. (various references)

German

Ex- (former). (various references)

Greek 

έξω (forth, out, out of doors, outdoors, outside, without), εξ-. (various references)

Hungarian

volt (ex, late, money I had none, volt, was). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

事後 (after-, post-), 旧 , 曾て (before, ever, former, formerly, never, once), 曾 (ever, former, formerly, never, once before). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), かつて (before, ever, former, formerly, never, once), かって (before, ever, former, formerly, kitchen, never, once, one's own convenience, one's way, selfishness), じ�" (after-, after that, Go game resulting in tie or draw, post-, thereafter, whispering), そ (altar of sacrifice, ancestor, ever, forefather, former, formerly, never, once before, prime, progenitor). (various references)

Malay

bekas (former). (various references)

Pig Latin

ex-ay

Portuguese

oriundo de. (various references)

Russian 

указывает на изъятие. (various references)

Spanish

ex-. (various references)

Swedish

ex-, förutvarande (former, late, one time, onetime, previous, quondam), före detta (late, quondam). (various references)

Turkish

eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran), eskí (former, old), sabık (earlier, erstwhile, ex, former, previous, prior, quondam, sometime), önceki (antecedent, anterior, before, ex, foregoing, former, hereinabove, last, old, onetime, pre-, preceding, previous, prior, pristine, pro-, quondam, sometime, the former). (various references)

Ukranian 

екс-. (various references)

Welsh

cyn- (first, former, pre-, previous). (various references)

ex. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ex.

+1 letter: axe, dex, hex, kex, lex, rex, sex, vex.

+2 letters: apex, axed, axel, axes, axle, dexy, eaux, exam, exec, exes, exit, exon, expo, flex, ibex, ilex, jeux, luxe, next, nixe, oxen, oxes, prex, sext, sexy, text, vext.

+3 letters: annex, axels, axile, axite, axled, axles, axmen, axone, beaux, bemix, boxed, boxer, boxes, carex, cimex, codex, coxae, coxed, coxes, culex, deoxy, desex, detox, dewax, dexes, dexie, doxie, epoxy, exact, exalt, exams, excel, execs, exert, exile, exine, exist, exits, exons, expat, expel, expos, extol, extra, exude, exult, exurb, faxed, faxes, fixed, fixer, fixes, foxed, foxes, goxes, helix, hexad, hexed, hexer, hexes, hexyl, index, ixtle, kexes, latex, laxer, lexes, lexis, loxed, loxes, luxes, maxes, mirex, mixed, mixer, mixes, moxie, murex, nexus, nixed, nixes, nixie, oxeye, oxide, oxime, oxter, paxes, pixel, pixes, pixie, poxed, poxes, prexy, pyxes, pyxie, raxed, raxes, redox, redux, refix, relax, remex, remix, retax, rewax, rexes, saxes, sexed, sexes, sexto, sexts, silex, sixes, sixte, taxed, taxer, taxes, telex, texas, texts, tuxes, unsex, vexed, vexer, vexes, vexil, vixen, waxed, waxen, waxer, waxes, xebec, xenia, xenic, xenon, xeric, xerox, xerus, xylem, zaxes.

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