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A privative, named from Latin , is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages, many privatives are prefixes, but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.

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negation

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  • Privative prefixes
  • Confusion of privative and non-privative in English
  • Privative suffixes
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

A privative, named from Latin , is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages, many privatives are prefixes, but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.

==Privative prefixes==

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