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ex-
pref.
1. Outside; out of; away from: exodontia.
2. Not; without: excaudate.
3. Former: ex-president.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin and Greek; see eghs in Indo-European roots.]

ex-1
prefix
1. out of; outside of; from exclosure exurbia
2. former ex-wife
[from Latin, from ex (prep), identical in meaning and origin with Greek ex, ek; see ec-]

ex-2
combining form
a variant of exo- before a vowel exergonic
Translations
ex- [eks] PREFIX (= former) → ex
the ex-ambassador to Moscowel ex embajador en Moscú
the ex-leader ofel antiguo jefe de
ex-ministerex-ministro/a m/f
ex-presidentex-presidente/a m/f
see also ex-husband, ex-serviceman
ex- [ˈɛks] prefix
(= former) [husband, president] → ex-
his ex-wife → son ex-femme
(= out of)
the price ex-works → le prix départ usine
ex-
pref
ehemalig, Ex-; ex-presidentfrüherer Präsident, frühere Präsidentin, Expräsident(in) m(f); ex-wifefrühere Frau, Exfrau f; ex-Yugoslaviadas frühere Jugoslawien
ex-factoryab Werk ? ex officio, ex works
ex- [ɛks] pref (former, husband, president) → ex-
ex- [ɛks] pref (former, husband, president) → ex-


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This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of ex- citement.
But an expedition from a large college was recently there and succeeded, after much labor, in ex- cavating part of a buried city.
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, ex- pressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.
 
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