a word, letter, or number placed before another.

The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.

a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative

what is meant by a word, text, concept, or action.

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Question	Answer
prefix	a word, letter, or number placed before another.
root	The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
suffix	a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative
meaning	what is meant by a word, text, concept, or action.