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- "Prefixes are affixes which precede the root with which they are most closely associated." (Gleason 1955:59)
The term prefix is attested in English since the 17th century.
Gleason, H. Allan. 1955. An introduction to descriptive linguistics. New York: Henry Holt and Company.