noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

Synonyms

All synonyms

prefixoidsemisuffix

Etymology

From suffix + -oid, Coined by US etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel circa 1966.

Related phrases

bound morphemecombining formfree morpheme

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