prefices

English

Etymology

By analogy with terms such as appendices and indices.

Noun

prefices

  1. (nonstandard) plural of prefix
    • 1981, Reiner Luckenbach, Beilsteins Handbuch der organischen Chemie, English edition, page 1571:
      The names used in the index […] are different from the systematic nomenclature used in the text only insofar as Substitution and Degree-of-Unsaturation Prefices are placed after the name (inverted), and all configurational prefices and symbols […] are omitted.
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