| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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8. Word Formation: Plurals, Possessives, Affixes, and Compounds
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| § 7. co- |
| We can trace the prefix co- back to the Latin prefix co-, a form of com-, meaning “with.” In English, the prefix co- means “together, joint, jointly.” In words such as coheir and coedit, co- has simply been affixed to words that already existed to create new words whose meanings are easy to guess. | 1 |
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