What is the meaning of the prefix fore-?

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What is the meaning of the prefix fore-?

Fore- signals position at the front or ahead in time. It shows that something is before or in front of something else. That’s why it matches “In front of,” as in foreword (the front part of a book), forecast (to tell what will happen before it does), and forehead (the front part of the head). The other ideas come from different prefixes—geo- for earth, over- or supra for above, and un- or non- for negation—so they don’t fit this meaning.

Fore- signals position at the front or ahead in time. It shows that something is before or in front of something else. That’s why it matches “In front of,” as in foreword (the front part of a book), forecast (to tell what will happen before it does), and forehead (the front part of the head). The other ideas come from different prefixes—geo- for earth, over- or supra for above, and un- or non- for negation—so they don’t fit this meaning.

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