English

Precambrian

From pre- + Cambrian.

A compound of pre- + Cambrian

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Today it means

adj Relating to the time and geology dated before the Phanerozoic

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Etymograph / Precambrian

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