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What Are Some Ex Words?

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What Are Some Ex Words? exact. exalt. exams. excel. execs. exert. exile. exine. What is prefix ex mean? a prefix meaning “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,” and sometimes meaning “not” or “without” or indicating a former title, status, etc.; freely used as an English formative: exstipulate; exterritorial; ex-president (former president); ex-member; ex-wife. What

Where Does The Term Ex Come From?

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Where Does The Term Ex Come From? ex- is a word-forming element, which in English simply means “former” in this case, or mainly “out of, from,” but also “upwards, completely, deprive of, without. It most likely originated in Latin, where ex meant “out of, from within,” and perhaps, in some cases also from Greek cognate