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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-
prefix
1. out of, outside, or from: exit
2. former: his glamorous ex-wife [Latin]
Translations
Spanish ex- [ɛks] pref (= former) [husband, president etc] → ex- (= out of): the price ex-works → precio de fábrica
French ex- [ɛks] prefix (= former) [husband, president etc] → ex- (= out of);
the price ex-works → le prix départ usine
German ex- [ɛks] pref → Ex-, frühere(r, s);
the price ex works → der Preis ab Werk
Italian ex- [ɛks] prefix → ex (= out of): the price ex- works → il prezzo franco fabbrica
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This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of ex- citement.
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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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