cis-
/sɪs-/
cis- prefix: on this side of.
Prefix
cis-
- On this side of.
- cis- + alpine → cisalpine (literally “on this side of the Alps”)
- cis- + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia
- Antonyms:
- trans-
- Forms names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same side of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound.
- cis- + diazene → cis-diazene
- Antonyms:
- trans-
- Not trans.
- cis- + gender → cisgender
- cis- + sexual → cissexual
- Antonyms:
- trans-
- Being, or pertaining to being, cis.
- cis- + normativity → cisnormativity
- cis- + sexism → cissexism
cis- meaning in Tamil
cis- in Tamil
- ஒரே
Examples of cis- in a sentence
- cis- + Jordan → Cisjordan
- cis- + Neptunian → cis-Neptunian
- cis- + Rhenane → cisrhenane (literally “on this side of Rhine”)
Antonyms of cis-
Origin of cis-
From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known use of the prefix relating to sexuality in any language was in a German-language book on sexology published in 1914. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994.
Words formed from cis-
Questions about cis-
- What does cis- mean?
- Cis- means on this side of.
- What is cis- in Tamil?
- Cis- in Tamil is ஒரே. See Cis- meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cis- in a sentence?
- cis- + Jordan → Cisjordan
- What part of speech is cis-?
- Cis- is a prefix.
- How do you pronounce cis-?
- Cis- is pronounced /sɪs-/.
Words near cis- in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cis- (page history and authors); cis- (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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