morpheme
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
morpheme
n 1: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into
smaller meaningful units
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
morpheme \mor"pheme\ (m[^o]r"f[=e]m), n. (Linguistics)
The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be
divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually
smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of
verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the
plural form.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "morpheme":
IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph,
bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation,
difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme,
icon, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation,
inflection, lexeme, lexical form, morph, morphemic analysis,
morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, paradigm, phrase, prefix,
prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, semasiological unit, sememe,
sign, signifiant, significant, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbol,
term, theme, token, type, word, word-formation
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