"smallest meaningful unit in a language," 1896, from German morpheme, coined 1895 by Polish-born linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929), from Greek morphe "form, shape" (see Morpheus), on analogy of phonème.
例文
1. Morpheme is the basic unit in the study of morphology.
形態素は形態学研究の最も基本的な単位である。/
2.You should learn to use single- morpheme words in Chinese.
撮影グループこの行の目的は、中国の戯曲に関するテレビ映画を撮影することです。
3.Allomorph:any of the different form of a morpheme .
形態素変異体:形態素の任意の異なる形態.
4.The most basic element of meaning is traditionally called morpheme .
伝統的に意味の基本成分を形態素と呼ぶ。
5.Will discuss concepts such as phoneme, morpheme ,affix,rules and constraints.