English

all-around

Able to do many or all things well.

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    From all- + around, compare all-round.

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    • prefixEnglishall- “Indicates complete power or authority in an area.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishall-
        • inheritedOld Englishæl-
    • partEnglisharound “Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).”
      • inheritedMiddle Englisharounde
        • inheritedOld Englishā- “on, at”
      • prefixEnglisha- “Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.”
        • derivedAncient Greekἀ- “not”
        • inheritedMiddle Englisha- “of”
        • derivedAnglo-Normana-
        • derivedLatinab “of, off, from, away”
      • derivedEnglishtris- “A variant of tri- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs three ti…”
        • borrowedAncient Greekτρῐ́ς “thrice”
        • derivedEnglishbis “Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in …”

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