Etymology

antidrop

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Today it means: Preventing or counteracting a drop in body temperature. Full definition →

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The story

From anti- + drop. In the linguistics sense, the prefix pro- (from pronoun) is reinterpreted as having its usual sense ("in favor of", etc.)

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