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Endo, a prefix from Greek ἔνδον endon meaning "within, inner, absorbing, or containing" Endocannibalism, a practice of eating the flesh of a dead human being from the same community. For other possible words, see All pages with titles beginning with Endo; Endodontics, field of dentistry
A morpheme is any of the smallest meaningful constituents within a linguistic expression and particularly within a word. [1] Many words are themselves standalone morphemes, while other words contain multiple morphemes; in linguistic terminology, this is the distinction, respectively, between free and bound morphemes.
Meaning Origin language and etymology Example(s) pachy-thick Greek πᾰχῠ́ς (pakhús), thick, large, stout pachyderma, pachyderm -pagus: Indicates conjoined twins, with the first part denoting the organs fused Greek πάγος (págos), fixed, set, fastened xiphopagus, parapagus dicephalus, craniopagus parasiticus: palpebr-
Anadrome: a word or phrase that reads as a different word or phrase in reverse Apronym : an acronym that is also a phrase pertaining to the original meaning RAS syndrome : repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. [1] [2] Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some independent meaning.
The linking of a word-final consonant to a vowel beginning the word immediately following it forms a regular part of the phonetics of some languages, including Spanish, Hungarian, and Turkish. Thus, in Spanish, the phrase los hombres ('the men') is pronounced [loˈsom.bɾes] , Hungarian az ember ('the human') as [ɒˈzɛm.bɛr] , and Turkish ...
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O.
In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. Typically, a stem remains unmodified during inflection with few exceptions due to apophony (for example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city"); in English, sing, sang, and sung, where it can be modified according to morphological rules or peculiarities, such as sandhi)