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Morpheme

Any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a phrase, a word, or a meaningful part of a word (eg: prefix, infix, suffix, affix), that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts; existing bound (eg: raspberry morpheme) or free (eg: clip). See phoneme, syllabary, syntax, ideogram, alphabet, language.

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