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morphosyllabic

morphosyllabic adjective: representing both a syllable and a morpheme.

Adjective

morphosyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Representing both a syllable and a morpheme.
    • a morphosyllabic Mandarin character

Origin of morphosyllabic

From morpho- + syllabic.

Questions about morphosyllabic

What does morphosyllabic mean?
Morphosyllabic means representing both a syllable and a morpheme.
What part of speech is morphosyllabic?
Morphosyllabic is an adjective.

Words near morphosyllabic in the dictionary

  1. morphostratigraphic
  2. morphostratigraphy
  3. morphostructural
  4. morphostructure
  5. morphostructures
  6. morphosyllabic
  7. morphosyllable
  8. morphosyllabograph
  9. morphosyntactic
  10. morphosyntactical
  11. morphosyntactically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morphosyllabic (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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