-eme


-eme

suff. A distinctive unit of linguistic structure: semanteme.
[French -ème, from phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.]

-eme

suffix forming nouns linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language: morpheme; phoneme. [C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme]

-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; grapheme. [extracted from phoneme]