es-prefix

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French es-.

Etymology: < Old French es- < classical Latin ex- ex- prefix¹.Before ch this prefix was in the 14–15th centuries occasionally written eþ- . A frequent variant of es- is a- ; compare a- prefix¹.

occurring in adoptions of Old French words beginning with es-:—Latin ex- out. A few of these words survive with the prefix unchanged, as escape, escheat; a few others have been refashioned with ex-, after Latin, as esample, now example, eschange, now exhange; but the much larger number of them are obsolete.

¶The examples of the prefix es- must be distinguished from those of the euphonic e prefixed in Old French (as in Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese) to an initial s followed by a consonant, e.g. especial, esquire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	es-
释义	es-prefix Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French es-. Etymology: < Old French es- < classical Latin ex- ex- prefix¹.Before ch this prefix was in the 14–15th centuries occasionally written eþ- . A frequent variant of es- is a- ; compare a- prefix¹. occurring in adoptions of Old French words beginning with es-:—Latin ex- out. A few of these words survive with the prefix unchanged, as escape, escheat; a few others have been refashioned with ex-, after Latin, as esample, now example, eschange, now exhange; but the much larger number of them are obsolete. ¶The examples of the prefix es- must be distinguished from those of the euphonic e prefixed in Old French (as in Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese) to an initial s followed by a consonant, e.g. especial, esquire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < prefix
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