What does morpheme mean?

Definitions for morpheme
ˈmɔr fimmor·pheme

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. morphemenoun

    minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

GCIDE

  1. morphemenoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. morphemenoun

    The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".

  2. Etymology: From morphème.

Wikipedia

  1. Morpheme

    A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. In English, morphemes are often but not necessarily words. Morphemes that stand alone are considered roots (such as the morpheme cat); other morphemes, called affixes, are found only in combination with other morphemes. For example, the -s in cats indicates the concept of plurality but is always bound to another concept to indicate a specific kind of plurality.This distinction is not universal and does not apply to, for example, Latin, in which many roots cannot stand alone. For instance, the Latin root reg- (‘king’) must always be suffixed with a case marker: rex (reg-s), reg-is, reg-i, etc. For a language like Latin, a root can be defined as the main lexical morpheme of a word.

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  1. morpheme

    A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning or has a grammatical function. It cannot be divided further into smaller parts. It can be a word itself or a prefix, suffix, infix, or other meaningful parts of a word that are used to change the word's meaning or grammatical function. Morphemes can be classified as free morphemes (can stand alone as words) and bound morphemes (cannot stand alone as words).

Wikidata

  1. Morpheme

    In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. Every word comprises one or more morphemes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of morpheme in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of morpheme in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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