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????????????????????????????????????????????????~??????????????????can be a prefix that means 50 percent, partially, or something which is slightly inferior. The prefix demi– is derived through the Aged French term demi indicating fifty percent, derived with the Latin phrase dimidius. The prefix demi– is just not witnessed nearly as frequently