Morpheme
Mesi
Type
bound base
Denotation
middle, intermediate, halfway
Etymology
from mesial (<Mes(e) + -i- + -al(e)>); Ancient Greek mésos
Evidence
mediad, mesioangular, mesioapical, mesiobasal, mesiobuccal, mesiocentral, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodens, mesiodistal, mesiodorsal, mesiofacial, mesiofrontal, mesiogingival, mesioincisal, mesiolabial, mesiolabially, mesiolateral, mesiolaterally, mesiolingual, mesiolingually, mesion, mesiopalatal, mesioposterior, mesioposteriorly, mesioproximal, mesiopulpal, mesiotemporal, mesioventral
Notes
modern base before prefixes and connecting vowels
mesion and mesiad are variants of meson and mesad
