morpheme
SMALLEST LINGUISTIC UNIT WITHIN A WORD THAT CAN CARRY A MEANING
Morphemes; Morpho-syntactic; Derivational morpheme; Morphemic; Moneme; Morpgeme; Derivational morphemes; Inflectional morphemes
['m?:fi:m]
¦ noun Linguistics a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming).
Derivatives
morphemic adjective
morphemically adverb
Origin
C19: from Fr. morpheme, from Gk morphe 'form', on the pattern of Fr. phoneme 'phoneme'.