English Dictionary: De/ | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for De/ | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
De- \De-\ A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. {Dis-}. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
de (1999-01-27) |