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-eme

/-iːm/

-eme suffix: indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.

Suffix

-eme

  1. Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.
    • phone + -eme → phoneme
    • metaphor + -eme → metaphoreme

Origin of -eme

Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Questions about -eme

What does -eme mean?
-eme means indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.
What part of speech is -eme?
-eme is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -eme?
-eme is pronounced /-iːm/.

Words near -eme in the dictionary

  1. -eine
  2. -el
  3. -elect
  4. -elic
  5. -elle
  6. -eme
  7. -emesis
  8. -emia
  9. -en
  10. -ence
  11. -ences

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -eme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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