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mor⋅pheme

[mawr-feem]
–noun Linguistics.
any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def. 2), morph (def. 1).

Origin:
1895–1900; < F morphème; see morph-, -eme


mor⋅phe⋅mic, adjective
mor⋅phe⋅mi⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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mor·pheme   (môr'fēm')   
n.  A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.

[French morphème, blend of Greek morphē, form and French phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.]
mor·phem'ic adj., mor·phem'i·cal·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

morpheme 
1896, "part of a word which contains the affixes," from Fr. morphème, coined from Gk. morphe "form, shape" (see morphine), on analogy of phonème.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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