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mult-
variant of multi- before a vowel.
multangular.
Example Sentences
It’s an Age of Aquarius take on what I’ve been shorthanding as “MULT”: Making Up for Lost Time.
The 2009-13 series, “Mult Lichnosti” or “Cartoon Personalities,” gingerly spoofed Russian politicians and celebrities, including Vladimir Putin.
“Mult Lichnosti” was created by four lanky Russian siblings, Daniil, David, Anna and Maria Liberman, none of whom had any particular gifts for animation.
Before “Mult Lichnosti,” they’d honed their operational skills running a successful massively multiplayer online video game company, which required keeping large teams of coders, writers and artists working together in lock step.
Her old straw-hatted mult was galloping.
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When To Use
Mult- is a combining form used like a prefix with a variety of meanings, including “many; much; multiple.” It is very occasionally used in scientific and technical terms.Mult- comes from Latin multus, meaning “much” and “many.” The Greek equivalent of multus is DZý, also meaning both “much” and “many,” which is the source of the combining form poly-. To learn more, check out our Words That Use article about poly-. are variants of mult-?Mult- is a variant of multi-, which loses its -i- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use article on multi-.
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