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Con occurs as variant on the Latin prefix "com", meaning "with" or even "together"
In Spanish, con is the word for by owning, & per se appears around occasionally Spanish borrowings like "chili con carne".
In Hong Kong English, con is the short form for contact lens(es).
Con is an replacement spelling for the god Kon around Inca mythology,
Con is an apocopation of 'confidence trick', which is the cozenage pulled off by a 'con artist'.
Con is an apocopation of convention. Utilized primarily in the titles of the conventions.
Con is an apocopation of "convict", when inside "ex-con".
Con is an adverb meaning "against" (short for Latin "contra")
Con is the name of the television series on Comedy Central.
Con was a state located in what is nowadays Burkina Faso.
These are ironic that a prefix definition of "con" is antonymous sustaining a adverb definition.
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