morphology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek: morpho- +‎ -logy

Noun

Wikipedia morphology (countable and uncountable; plural morphologies)

1. (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
   1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
   2. (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
   3. (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
2. (countable) The form and structure of something.
3. (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Derived terms

• morphological
• morphologist
• macromorphology
• micromorphology

Related terms

• morpheme
• morphotactics

Translations

a scientific study of form and structure

Afrikaans: morfologie (af) Arabic: مورفولوجيا (ar) (murfulujya) f. Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 形態學 (cmn), 形态学 (cmn) (xíngtàixué) Dutch: morfologie f., vormleer French: morphologie (fr) f. German: Morphologie (de) f.

Ido: morfologio (io) Italian: morfologia (it) f. Japanese: 形態学 (ja) (けいたいがく, keitaigaku) Polish: morfologia (pl) f. Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f. Spanish: morfología (es) f. Tagalog: putang ina (tl)

the form and structure of something

Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Dutch: morfologie (nl) f. Italian: morfologia (it) f. Polish: morfologia (pl) f.

Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f.

a description of the form and structure of something

Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Dutch: morfologie (nl) f. Italian: morfologia (it) Polish: morfologia (pl) f.

Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f.

biological study of the form and structure

Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 形態學 (cmn), 形态学 (cmn) (xíngtàixué) Dutch: morfologie f., vormleer Italian: morfologia (it) f.

Japanese: 形態学 (ja) (けいたいがく, keitaigaku) Polish: morfologia (pl) f. Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f.

geological study of the form and structure

Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Dutch: morfologie f., vormleer Italian: morfologia (it) Polish: morfologia (pl) f.

Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f.

linguistic study of the form and structure

Albanian: morfologji (sq) f. Arabic: صرف (ar) (Sarf) m., مورفولوجيا (ar) (murfulujya) f. Armenian: ձևաբանություն (dzevabanut'yun) Catalan: morfologia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 形態學 (cmn), 形态学 (cmn) (xíngtàixué), 構詞學 (cmn), 构词学 (cmn) (gòucíxué), 詞型變化 (cmn), 词型变化 (cmn) (cíxíngbiànhuà), 語形學 (cmn), 语形学 (cmn) (yǔxíngxué) Croatian: oblikoslovlje (hr) n., morfologija (hr) f. Czech: morfologie (cs) f., tvarosloví (cs) n. Dutch: morfologie f., vormleer French: morphologie (fr) f.

German: Morphologie (de) f., Wortbildung (de) f. Ido: morfologio (io) Irish: moirfeolaíocht (ga) f. Italian: morfologia (it) f. Japanese: 形態論 (ja) (けいたいろん, keitairon) Lower Sorbian: słowoskład m., morfologija  f. Persian: صرف (fa) Polish: morfologia (pl) f. Romanian: morfologie (ro) f. Russian: морфология (ru) (morfológija) f., словообразование (ru) (slovoobrazovánije) n. Spanish: morfología (es) f.

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German: Formenlehre f. Greek: μορφολογία (morphología) f. Interlingua: morphologia

Korean: 형태학 (hyeong-taehak) Latin: morphologia Lithuanian: sandara f. (1), morfologija f. (2,3) Persian: واژهشناسی (vazhe-shenasi) Portuguese: morfologia f. Sindhi: صرفيات (Sarfiaat) f. (3,3) Slovene: oblikoslovje Spanish: morfología f.

See also

• Wikipedia article on morphology in linguistics.
• Category:Linguistic morphology