morfema
Portuguese, noun/moʁˈfẽ.mɐ/
morfema is spelled M-O-R-F-E-M-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese, the 156,173rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Morfema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “morpheme (smallest linguistic unit of meaning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “a menor unidade linguística com significado, podendo estar presa (como em -s e pseudo-), também conhecida…”.
What does morfema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemorpheme (smallest linguistic unit of meaning)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. a menor unidade linguística com significado, podendo estar presa (como em -s e pseudo-), também conhecida como morfema gramatical, ou livre, como na palavra rua 2. na terminologia de André Martinet, monema com função gramatical
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of morfema
- morfemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce morfema?
- Brazil /moʁˈfẽ.mɐ/
- Brazil [mohˈfẽ.mɐ]
- /moɾˈfẽ.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to morfema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is morfema in Portuguese?
morfema appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).