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."
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Morpheme
/ˈmɔː.fiːm/
Synonyms for "morpheme" (74 found)
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Closest matches (15)
accidenceaffixaffixationallomorphbound morphemeconjugationcuttingdeclensionderivationdifference of form
Strong matches (22)
Related words (37)
Noun(9 words)
morphmorphemic analysismorphemicsmorphologymorphophonemicsparadigmphraseprefixprefixationprocliticradicalrootsemasiological unitsememesignsignifiantsignificantstemsuffixsuffixation
Related word relations
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4 entriesgrammatical unitlanguage unitlinguistic unitmorphological unit
More specific
6 entriesbound morphemecircumfix morphemefree morphemeinfix morphemeprefix morphemesuffix morpheme
Collocations
6 entriesbound morphemederivational morphemeinflectional morphememorpheme boundarymorpheme inventorymorpheme segmentation
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesSample 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