English Explanatory Dictionary

morphology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
  2. The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
  3. The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
  4. The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
  5. Mathematical morphology.
  6. The form and structure of something.
  7. A description of the form and structure of something.

Pronunciation

/mɔːˈfɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-morphology.wav /mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ /moːˈfɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Word forms

morphology morphologies

Etymology

Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy.

Related words

isomorph morpheme morphotactics

Derived words

agromorphology biomorphology cytomorphology dysmorphology ecomorphology exomorphology extramorphology geomorphology histomorphology hydromorphology ichnomorphology immunomorphology inflectional morphology macromorphology mathematical morphology micromorphology mitomorphology morphologic morphological morphologist morphologize morphosyntax nanomorphology neuromorphology osteomorphology pathomorphology pedomorphology photomorphology phytomorphology plant morphology promorphology psychomorphology radiomorphology sonomorphology submorphology tonomorphology ultramorphology xenomorphology zoomorphology

Translations

Afrikaans: morfologie Albanian: morfologji Arabic: مُورْفُولُوجِيَا Arabic: صَرْف Arabic: تَصْرِيف Armenian: ձևաբանություն Armenian: ձեւաբանություն Azerbaijani: morfologiya Balinese: rupawidya Belarusian: марфало́гія Belarusian: марфалёгія Bulgarian: морфоло́гия Catalan: morfologia Cebuano: morpolohiya Chinese Mandarin: 形態學 /形态学 Chinese Mandarin: 構詞學 /构词学 Chinese Mandarin: 詞型變化 /词型变化 Chinese Mandarin: 語形學 /语形学 Chinese Mandarin: 詞法學 /词法学 Czech: tvarosloví Czech: morfologie Danish: morfologi Dutch: morfologie Dutch: vormleer Estonian: morfoloogia Finnish: morfologia Finnish: muoto-oppi French: morphologie Galician: morfoloxía Georgian: მორფოლოგია German: Morphologie German: Formenlehre German: Wortbildung Greek: μορφολογία Hebrew: מוֹרְפוֹלוֹגְיָה Icelandic: formfræði Icelandic: orðhlutafræði Ido: morfologio Indonesian: morfologi Italian: morfologia Japanese: 形態学 Japanese: 語形論 Japanese: 形態論 Kazakh: морфология Khmer: សណ្ឋានវិទ្យា Khmer: រូបសព្ទ Korean: 형태학 Korean: 어형론 Korean: 형태론 Kyrgyz: морфология Latin: morphologia Latvian: morfoloģija Lithuanian: morfologija Macedonian: морфологија Malay: morfologi Malay: nahu bentuk Norwegian Bokmål: morfologi Iranian Persian: مُرْفولوژی Iranian Persian: ریخْتْشِناسی Polish: morfologia Portuguese: morfologia
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