Definition of '-eme'

-eme

suffix forming nouns

linguistics

indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language

morpheme

phoneme

Word origin of '-eme'

C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme

-eme in American English (im ; ēm)

Linguistics

a distinctive unit of language structure at a (specified) level of analysis, generally characterized as a class consisting of all the variant forms of the given unit

the grapheme <w> consists of all the possible written forms of the letter w

Word origin of '-eme'

Fr -ème, unit, sound < phonème, phoneme

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Definition of -eme from the Collins English Dictionary

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Definition of '-eme'

-eme

Word origin of '-eme'

-eme in American English (im ; ēm)

Word origin of '-eme'

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