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morpheme

noun

mor·​pheme ˈmȯr-ˌfēm How to pronounce morpheme (audio)
: a distinctive collocation of phonemes (such as the free form pin or the bound form -s of pins) having no smaller meaningful parts
morphemic adjective
morphemically adverb

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Morphemes are the indivisible basic units of language, much like the atoms which physicists once assumed were the indivisible units of matter. English speakers borrowed morpheme from French morphème, which was itself created from the Greek root morphē, meaning "form." The French borrowed -ème from their word phonème, which, like English phoneme, means "the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word." The French suffix and its English equivalent -eme are used to create words that refer to distinctive units of language structure. Words formed from -eme include lexeme ("a meaningful linguistic unit that is an item in the vocabulary of a language"), grapheme ("a unit of a writing system"), and toneme ("a unit of intonation in a language in which variations in tone distinguish meaning").

Example Sentences

The word “pins” contains two morphemes: “pin” and the plural suffix “-s.”
Recent Examples on the Web Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme. Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017

Word History

Etymology

French morphème, from Greek morphē form

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of morpheme was in 1896

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