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-eme
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| -eme | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language: morpheme; phoneme | |
| [C20: via French, abstracted from | |
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Word Origin & History
-eme
in linguistics, noted as an active suffix and word-formation element from 1953; from Fr. -ème "unit, sound," from phonème (see phoneme).
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