Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

morphologize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mor-phol-o-gize
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make (something) morphological (structural).

Transitive verb

verb

To become, or cause (e.g. a phonetic feature) to become, (re)interpreted morphologically.

verb

To decompose into morphemes (as).

Example Sentences

"By morphologizing the tribade, anatomy paradoxically moves her closer to home: the erotic excess that was attributed to foreign women now can be found on the Christian bodies of "Lasses" and "young Wenches" who handle themselves as well as each other."
"[…] and, moreover, it is subject to syntagmatic segmental processes which can morphologize the prosodic accent location (vowel lengthening as in the first three examples and rearticulation of the secondary stressed vowel as in the fourth)."
"In the word chlekʼwnts 'he broiled it (salmon)' which morphologizes as /č - lekʼʷ - ənts/ 'on - piece - 3.s.sub.3.s.obj.TRANS.-PAST', we have the processual 'pierce' as trajector, […]"

Etymology

From morpholog(y), morpholog(ical) + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: morphology
Suffix: -ize

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

morphologizes (present, singular) morphologizing (participle, present) morphologized (participle, past) morphologized (past)

Frequently Paired Words

morphologization

Questions

What does morphologize mean?: To make (something) morphological (structural).
Where does morphologize come from?: From morpholog(y), morpholog(ical) + -ize.

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