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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- prefix Existence; being.
- prefix Organism.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Greek, from Greek ōn, ont-, present participle of einai, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
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