bound morpheme

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bound morpheme - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

bound form

morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

combining form - a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'"

affix - a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form

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Bound morphemes are suffixes, like an "-s" added to a root morpheme to create a plural, and prefixes, like an "un-" added to create an antonym of the root word.

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