The morpheme "homo" in "homosexual" and that in "Homo sapiens" are homonymous, terms that sound the same, but mean something different, the first meaning "same," whilst the latter meaning "human."
Source: tatoeba (10669722)
Morpheme
//ˈmɔː.fiːm//
Synonyms for "morpheme" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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13 entriesRelated terms
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
derived
16 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesholonym
1 entriesis a
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- morfeem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Albanian
1 entries- morfemë noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Arabic
3 entries- مَقْطَع صَرْفِيّ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- مُورْفِيم noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- مُورْفِيم noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Armenian
1 entries- ձևույթ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Asturian
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Balinese
1 entries- rupabaga noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Bashkir
1 entries- морфема noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Belarusian
2 entries- марфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- марфэ́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- морфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Catalan
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Cebuano
1 entries- morpheme noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 詞素 /词素 noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- 語素 /语素 noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Czech
1 entries- morfém noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Danish
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Dutch
2 entries- morfeem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- woorddeel noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Esperanto
1 entries- morfemo noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Estonian
1 entries- morfeem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Faroese
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Finnish
1 entries- morfeemi noun (smallest linguistic unit)
French
1 entries- morphème noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Galician
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Georgian
1 entries- მორფემი noun (smallest linguistic unit)
German
1 entries- Morphem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Greek
1 entries- μόρφημα noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Hebrew
1 entries- מוֹרְפֶמָה noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Hindi
1 entries- रूपिम noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Hungarian
1 entries- morféma noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Icelandic
3 entries- minnsta merkingarbær eining mál noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- myndan noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Ido
1 entries- morfemo noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Indonesian
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Italian
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Japanese
1 entries- 形態素 noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Kazakh
1 entries- морфема noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Khmer
2 entries- មូលតា noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- រូបសព្ទតា noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Korean
1 entries- 형태소 noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- морфема noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Latin
1 entries- morphema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Latvian
1 entries- morfēma noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Lithuanian
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Macedonian
1 entries- морфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Malay
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Mongolian
3 entries- бүтээвэр noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- морфем noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Persian
1 entries- تکواژ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Polish
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Portuguese
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Romanian
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Russian
1 entries- морфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- morféma noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- mòrfēm noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- мо̀рфе̄м noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- морфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Slovak
1 entries- morféma noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Slovene
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Spanish
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Swahili
1 entries- mofimu noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Swedish
1 entries- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Tagalog
2 entries- morpema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- multuran noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Tajik
1 entries- морфема noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Thai
1 entries- หน่วยคำ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྒྲ་དོམ་ཕྲ་མོ noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Turkish
3 entries- biçim birimi noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- biçimbirim noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- morfem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- морфе́ма noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Uzbek
1 entries- morfema noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hình vị noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Welsh
2 entries- morffem noun (smallest linguistic unit)
- morffemau noun (smallest linguistic unit)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.
Source: wiktionary
There is therefore a natural tendency in both American and European structural linguistics to insist that the word should be syntactically decomposed. For writers such as Hockett (1958), or for that matter the early Chomsky (1957), the indivisible unit of grammar was the morpheme, and the relationship of morpheme to morpheme within the word […] was to be handled no differently from that of word to word in any larger structure.
Source: wiktionary
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