Put before; prefixed

A prepositive word.

In a prepositive position.

plural of prepositive

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

To place in a location before some other event occurs.

(grammar) The prepositional case.

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition. / (grammar) Of the prepositional case.

present participle of preposition

simple past tense and past participle of preposition