Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   For words so beginning, not found below, see palæo- .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A combining form meaning old, ancient.
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- prefix   very old; prehistoric 
- prefix   very early; primitive 
- prefix   related to paleontology 
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaios, "old").
			
		
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