ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mononom

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mononom is a noun meaning (linguistics) A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.

Meaning

(linguistics) A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.

More Meanings

  1. Synonym of mononym.

Example Sentences

The first of these are compounds where E1 is a Sino-Japanese mononom and E2 is suru.
Sino-Japanese mononoms are all short, since all Sino-Japanese morphs are one or two moras.
It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phongrams against 7).

Word Forms

Synonyms for mononom

Depending on context, synonyms include mononym.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monosemant, monorheme, monosyllabic, monomorph, hypermonosyllable, monoplast.

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