Word part · Latin prefix
The Latin prefix non-
Means: not.
At a glance
- Part
- non-
- Meaning
- not
- Layer
- Latin: Prefixes, suffixes and roots behind many school and book words.
Joins whole words and keeps all their letters: non + stop.
Example words
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Colors:prefixroot or basesuffix
- non (prefix)+stop (root or base)→nonstop
without stopping
- non (prefix)+sense (root or base)→nonsense
words or ideas that make no sense
- non (prefix)+living (root or base)→nonliving
not alive
- non (prefix)+fiction (root or base)→nonfiction
writing about real facts, not made up
- non (prefix)+stick (root or base)→nonstick
made so that food does not stick
- non (prefix)+exist (root or base)+ent (suffix)→nonexistent
not existing at all
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Parts that share a lesson with non-.
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