• An alpha privative or, rarely, privative a (from Latin alpha prīvātīvum, from Ancient Greek α στερητικόν) is the prefix a- or an- (before vowels) that...
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  • alpha privative, from Ancient Greek ἀ-, ἀν-, from Proto-Hellenic *ə-; e.g. apathetic, abiogenesis. These all stem from a PIE syllabic nasal privative...
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  • "country" Doric, Aeolic φᾱ́μᾱ phā́mā – Attic, Ionic φήμη phḗmē, "report" Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ- or ἀν- a-, an-, added to words to negate...
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    The etymology of "acoel" is from the Ancient Greek words ἀ (a), the alpha privative, expressing negation or absence, and κοιλία (koilía), meaning "cavity"...
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  • etymology comes from Ancient Greek. The word is formed by combining the alpha privative prefix ἀ- (a-, meaning 'not') with λέξις (léxis, referring to 'words')...
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  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization...
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    Generation Alpha (often shortened to Gen Alpha) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z and preceding Generation Beta. While researchers and...
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    "asphalt/bitumen/pitch", which perhaps derives from ἀ-, "not, without", i.e. the alpha privative, and σφάλλειν (sphallein), "to cause to fall, baffle, (in passive)...
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    real loose". His "Alpha" series predates his musical career and began as a collection of poems called 'Songs from Point Alpha Privative'. It is about a...
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    word descended from *n̥-mn̥gʷ-yō-nós 'manless, without husbands' (alpha privative combined with a derivation from *man- cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic...
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    stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public. Pre-alpha refers to the early...
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  • popular etymology that saw in the word Greek bythos ("depth") with an alpha privative to mean "without depth" or "bottomless"; Liddell and Scott, A Greek–English...
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    opposite of isogamy) comes from the ancient Greek negative prefix a(n)- (alpha privative), the Greek adjective isos (meaning equal) and the Greek verb gameo...
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    name Anura—and its original spelling Anoures—is the Ancient Greek alpha privative prefix ἀν- (an- from ἀ- before a vowel) 'without', and οὐρά (ourá)...
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  • etymological significance in proper names: i.e., he derived Ἄβιοι from alpha-privative plus βία ("without violence"), a suitable name for those he calls in...
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    term "acoelomorph" derives from the Ancient Greek words ἀ (a), the alpha privative, expressing negation or absence, κοιλία (koilía), meaning "cavity"...
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  • alternative or initiative. ⟨a⟩ as the unstressed a- prefix, called alpha privative, is also the schwa or [a] before stems that begin with consonants,...
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  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social...
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    The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a light attack jet and advanced jet trainer co-manufactured by Dassault Aviation of France and Dornier Flugzeugwerke...
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    strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, while a-hiṃsā (prefixed with the alpha privative), its opposite, is non-harming or nonviolence. Reverence for ahimsa...
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  • Alpha School is a chain of private schools in Texas and Florida, including accredited and non-accredited schools. The school's model is to offer two hours...
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    Alpha microprocessors Alpha (original name Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed...
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    Pallini. Alpha TV is owned by Alpha Satellite Television S.A. In Cyprus, private broadcaster Sigma TV used to broadcast a number of Alpha's programs....
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  • Alpha Hospital Group is a private provider of mental health care in England, launched in 2002 by Patricia Hodgkinson, former chief executive of the Florence...
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    greek words ἀν- (an-), expressing the "absence" (this prefix is an alpha privative), and οὐρά (ourá), meaning "animal tail". It refers to the tailless...
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  • sense of being strongly noncommutative. The idea of anabelian (an alpha privative an- before abelian), first introduced in Letter to Faltings (June 27...
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    Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group, officially Directorate "A" of FSB Special Purpose Center (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is a sub-unit of...
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  • (homós 'same'), and εἷς (heís 'one'; from Proto-Indo-European *sem-s). Privative a ἀ-. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at...
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  • originate with the Greek term ápeiron, commonly held to be formed from a (alpha privative, "without") and péras ("determination", "limit"), and thus translated...
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    Guy HF cabinet-making became Focal Ebénisterie Bourgogne. In 2019, Alpha Private Equity acquired a majority stake in Vervent Audio Group, which was later...
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