Definizione monolingua

morpheme

morpheme (plural morphemes)

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

   The word pigs consists of two morphemes: pig (a particular animal) and s (indication of the plural).

   The word werewolves consists of morphemes: ""were"" (~ man), ""wolf"" (a particular animal), ""es"" (plural), and "" "" (indicating possessive).

Definizione dizionario morpheme

	morfema
	smallest linguistic unit

Altri significati:

(linguistics) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-

The smallest lingual unit that carries a semantic interpretation, usually a distinctive collocation of phonemes having no smaller meaningful members.