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onto-

onto- prefix: being.

Prefix

onto-

  1. being

Origin of onto-

From Ancient Greek ὄντος (óntos), from ὤν (ṓn), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “I am”).

Questions about onto-

What does onto- mean?
Onto- means being.
What part of speech is onto-?
Onto- is a prefix.

Words near onto- in the dictionary

  1. Ontiveros
  2. Ontiveroses
  3. onto
  4. onto function
  5. onto functions
  6. onto-
  7. ontoepistemological
  8. ontoepistemologically
  9. ontoepistemologies
  10. ontoepistemology
  11. ontogeneses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onto- (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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