| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| mega (adj., interj.), mega-, meg- (prefixes) |
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| These are combining prefixes that mean “large, huge” and “a million” or “millions.” A megabyte is a million bytes, a megadose is a huge dose, and a megaphone is used to make the voice larger or louder. There are a good many nonce words that use mega- before consonants, as in megastupidity, and meg- before vowels, as in megopulence, and mega itself is clipped slang currently much in vogue with the young. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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