deuter-

1. variant of deutero- before a vowel:

   deuteranopia.

Example Sentences

Police said she is believed to be in possession of a blue/green Deuter Step Out 12 rucksack and was possibly wearing black, lightweight, slip-on trainers.

From BBC

Patients are given an eye mask and headphones to play spoken word meditations and instrumental music by Deuter, a German new age instrumentalist, that blends Eastern and Western musical elements.

From New York Times

Yet somehow the narrator ends up spending a lot of time at the Deuter Center reading up on the German.

From Slate

Nevertheless, a past success and an ambitious work in progress are catnip to literary foundations like the Deuter Center for Social and Cultural Research in Wannsee, a sleepy suburb of Berlin most famous as the place where, in 1942, the Nazi leadership formulated its plans for the Final Solution.

From Slate

In opposition to it, the Deuter Center offers a soulless version of community in which the individual is subject to constant scrutiny and forced to tolerate such boors as a neurophilosopher named Edgar, a knee-jerk contrarian who badgers every other guest with his dime-store sociobiology.

From Slate

Words That Use Deuter-

What does deuter- mean?

Deuter- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “second.” It is used in some scientific and other technical terms.

In terms from chemistry, deuter- specifically refers to deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen that has twice the mass of ordinary hydrogen. Deuterium was based directly on the Greek deúteros.

Deuter- comes from the Greek deúteros, meaning “second.”

Deuter- is a variant of deutero-, which loses its -o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.

Want to know more? Read our Words That Use deutero- article.

Other variants of deutero- are deuto- and deut-.

Examples of deuter-

One example of a term that features the combining form deuter- is deuteragonist, “the actor next in importance to the protagonist” in ancient Greek theater.

The deuter- part of the word means “second.” If protagonist has a literal sense of “first actor” (like a main character), then a deuteragonist literally means? That’s right, “second actor.” Today, we know a deuteragonist as a supporting actor.

The word comes from the Greek deuteragōnistḗs, which uses the equivalent form of deuter- in the language.

What are some words that use or are related to the combining form deuter-?

• deuteranomaly
• deuteranopia (using the equivalent form of the word in New Latin)
• deuterate
• deuteride
• deuterium oxide
• deuteron

What are some other forms that deuter- may be commonly confused with?

• di-
• dermato-
• dodeca-
• duo-
• neutro-

Break it down!

Anopia means “blindness,” especially due to a structural defect in or absence of an eye. Deuteranopia is a vision defect where the retina does not respond to the color green, green being regarded as the second component of color vision. What does deuteranopia literally translate to?