exɛks(prep.)

1. without; not including:

   ex dividend.

   Category: Business

2. free of charges to the purchaser until removed from a specified place:

   ex warehouse.

   Category: Business

Origin of ex:

1835–45; < L. See ex -1

exɛks(n.)

1. the letter

   X, x.

exɛks(n.)

1. Informal.a former spouse; ex-wife or ex-husband.

   Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

Origin of ex:

1820–30; by shortening

ex-

1. a prefix occurring orig. in loanwords from Latin, meaning “out, out of, away, forth” (egregious; exclude; exhale; exit; export; extract), used also to signify that the action of a base verb has been carried to a conclusive point (effect; effete; erase; exaggerate; excite; exhaust), esp. in causative formations (evacuate; effeminate; exhilarate; expurgate) or privative formations, including adjectives (emasculate; enervate; exonerate; exsanguine).

   Category: Affix

   Ref: Also, before consonants other than c, f, p, q, s,and tin Latin words, e-, 6 ef-.

2. a prefix meaning “former,”“formerly having been”:

   ex-member; ex-wife.

   Category: Affix

Origin of ex-:

< L, prefixal use of ex, ē (prep.) out (of), from, beyond; (def. 2 ) < LL, as in exconsul, based on L ex in the sense “from being, having formerly held (an office)”

ex-

1. exarch.

   Category: Affix

   Ref: var. of exo- before a vowel:

ex-

1. a prefix similar in meaning to ex-1, occurring orig. in loanwords from Greek: exegesis.

   Category: Affix

   Ref: Also, before a consonant, ec-. 1

Origin of ex-:

< Gk, prefixal use of ex, ek, out (of), from, beyond; cf. ex -1

Ex.

1. Exodus.

   Category: Bible

ex.

1. examination.

2. examined.

3. example.

4. except.

5. exception.

6. exchange.

7. excursion.

8. executed.