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mor|pheme «MR feem», noun.

Linguistics. the smallest part of a word that has meaning of its own. Morphemes may be words, prefixes, suffixes, or endings that show inflection. In the word carelessness, the morphemes are care, -less, and -ness. »

A morpheme does not necessarily _CONSIST of phonemes, but all morphemes are statable in terms of phonemes (H. A. Gleason, Jr.).

╂[< French morphème tydf>Greek morph form; patterned on French phonème phoneme]