preformant

== English == === Etymology === From pre- (prefix meaning ‘before; physically in front of’) +‎ Latin fōrmāns (“fashioning, forming, shaping”) +‎ -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs), modelled after prefix. Fōrmāns is the present participle of fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”), from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape; beauty; design, outline, plan; model, mould, pattern, stamp; (figuratively) kind, manner, sort”) (further etymology uncertain) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈfɔːm(ə)nt/ (General American) IPA(key): /pɹiˈfɔɹm(ə)nt/ Hyphenation: pre‧form‧ant === Noun === preformant (plural preformants) (archaic, rare) Chiefly in Semitic languages: Synonym of preformative (“a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word”). === References === === Further reading === prefix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === performant