-eme

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.

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Origin of -eme

extracted from phoneme

Words nearby -eme

-ee, -eer, -ein, -ella, -elle, -eme, -emia, -en, -ence, -enchyma, -ency

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British Dictionary definitions for -eme

-eme

suffix forming nouns

linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a languagemorpheme; phoneme

Word Origin for -eme

C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme

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