morphème

Definitions of morphème
  1. noun
    minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
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    types:
    morphème limité
    a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
    affixe
    a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
    type of:
    unité linguistique
    one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
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