Specialist dictionary

Morphology

Specialist vocabulary classified under Linguistics.

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Morphemenoun

minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

Basenoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Radicalnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Rootnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Root wordnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Stemnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Themenoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

Allomorphnoun

a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of ‘bets’ and ‘beds’ and ‘horses’ and ‘oxen’ are allomorphs of the Englis…

Bound formnoun

a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns

Bound morphemenoun

a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns

Classifiernoun

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs

Cliticnoun

a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.; "Most languages can…

Endingnoun

the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have ‘-ism’ as an ending"

Free formnoun

a morpheme that can occur alone

Free morphemenoun

a morpheme that can occur alone

Terminationnoun

the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have ‘-ism’ as an ending"

Compoundnoun

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also common in E…

Compound wordnoun

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also common in E…

Inflectionnoun

a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

Inflexionnoun

a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

Postfixnoun

an affix that is added at the end of the word

Prefixnoun

an affix that is added in front of the word

Suffixnoun

an affix that is added at the end of the word

Affixnoun

a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form

Combining formnoun

a bound form used only in compounds; "‘hemato-’ is a combining form in words like ‘hematology’"

Morphophonemenoun

(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

Procliticnoun

a clitic that is associated with a following word.; "The indefinite article ‘a’ is a proclitic, a word that wants to merge phonologically with t…

Conjugationnoun

the inflection of verbs

Declensionnoun

the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

Paradigmnoun

systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

Pluralizationnoun

the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to

Infixnoun

an affix that is inserted inside the word