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Ok, but does the a- prefix not specifically deny being a theist then?

No, and it never has. "Asymmetry," denotes a lack of symmetry, not a denial of symmetry. "Amoral," denotes a lack of morality, not a denial of morality. "Atheism," denotes a lack of theism, not a denial of theism. That's a non-trivial distinction.

You can be nothing or anything and everything except a theist when you declare yourself as atheist. And yes you can be a boy, a girl, a male female or anything in between but not a theist when you call yourself an atheist. So already you need to know what a theist is before to deny to be one yourself as atheist.

Not necessarily: you might not have a word to describe atheism without theists, but the actual content of the beliefs would still be definitely atheist, and having a name for a thing is not the sole qualifier for whether or not it exists.