semi-
prefix/sɛmi/ · /sɛmaɪ/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin semi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi/*sēmi-. Cognate to English sam, and to hemi- (via Ancient Greek).
1
Morpheme half
- semi-invalid.
2
Morpheme partial, incomplete
3
Morpheme somewhat, rather, quasi-
- Nothing like a nice hot ethnic dish before you go to see that semi-expensive, semi-meaningful Off-Broadway show.1994, Eric Bogosian, Pounding nails in the floor with my forehead:
- Derived terms
- semiflat