Topic: LINGUISTICS
| Date: | 1800-1900 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | morphème, from Greek morphe 'form' + English -eme (as in phoneme) |
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mor‧pheme
[countable]
[countable] technicalSL the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'so', 'the' and 'boy' consist of one morpheme. 'Boys' consists of two morphemes, 'boy' and 's'. :
the past tense morpheme
the plural morpheme
the past tense morpheme
the plural morpheme