-eme
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- A distinctive unit of linguistic structure:
素：在语言学结构中的单位：
semanteme.
义素
语源
- French -ème
法语 -ème - from phonème [phoneme] * see phoneme
源自 phonème [音素] *参见 phoneme
-eme
suffix forming nouns
linguistics. indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language
⇒
morpheme
⇒
phoneme
Origin
C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme-eme
Word Origin
1
a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem:
morpheme; tagmeme.
Origin
extracted from phoneme
Related Words
- chereme
- glosseme
- grapheme
- lexeme
- meristem
- morpheme
-emea noun suffix marking a unit in a linguistic system, as in lexeme, morpheme.
[by analogy with phoneme]-eme
noun suffix
taxeme
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY French -ème (from phonème speech sound, phoneme)
: significantly distinctive unit of language structuretaxeme
-eme
suffix
- Linguistics【语言学】forming nouns denoting linguistic units that are in systemic contrast with one other构成名词, 表示“位”, “素”：
-
grapheme
phoneme.
词源
abstracted from PHONEME .
1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects ofLang. iii. 79A by-product of Linguistic Analysis..has been the sudden burgeoning of the -eme family.
1962 H. A. Gleason in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 98Some kind of -emes;..no satisfactory term is at hand, though ‘sememe’ has been used.
-eme
in linguistics, noted as an active suffix and word-formation element from 1953; from French -ème "unit, sound," from phonème (see phoneme).
-eme
language structure or cultural unit:
language structure or cultural unit:
meme, morpheme, toneme, blaspheme
ORIGIN: Extracted from phoneme
-eme
\ˌēm\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: French -ème thing, unit (in phonème speech sound), from Greek -ēmat-, -ēma (in phōnēmat-, phōnēma utterance), from -ē- (stem vowel of phōnein to sound) + -mat-, -ma (noun suffix) — more at -ment
: significantly distinctive unit of structure of a (specified) kind in a language or dialect
< morpheme >
< toneme >
— compare allo-
< morpheme >
< toneme >
— compare allo-
-eme
Suffix
- Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.
Etymology
Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).