CLST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elision, Commensalism, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• School: UBC
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 301
• Professor: Shelley Reid

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Hypalgesia [elision of the o ] hypoalgesia [no elision of the o ] In this instance, both words are used in the medical field. More than half of the prefixes which end in a vowel can elide, but the following prefixes never do so: a-, ante-, de-, dia-, eu-, infra-, intra-, neo-, peri-, pre-, pro-, supra-. In this course, do not elide the vowel of a prefix when creating a term unless you are specifically instructed to do so. You should be prepared to recognize elided prefixes, however, when asked to define a term. If a prefix ends with a vowel and is followed by a root which begins with the same vowel, it is common to place a hyphen between the prefix and the root to avoid potential confusion: This dash is not required, however, and so it is not unusual to see the dash not used, especially with the letter o .