Word: commons
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: co
mmons
Definition: Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.
Morphemes:
Affix: common
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: commūnis
Language: la
Decoded: communis
Meaning: common, public, general
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form plurals of foreign words, to clarify pronunciation, such as “banana’s” or “pasta’s”.