Word: birtherism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bir
ther
i
sm
Definition: A movement in the United States of America that doubts or denies that the 44th President, Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen, thus implying that he is ineligible to be President.
Morphemes:
Affix: bear
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
Affix: -th
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form a term denoting the ordinal numeral corresponding to the value, being a natural number, of a mathematical expression.
Affix: -er
Language: en
Meaning: agent noun
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ārius
Language: la
Decoded: -arius
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: -er; Used to form nouns denoting an agent of use, such as a dealer or artisan, from other nouns.
Affix: -ism
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form names of a tendency of behaviour, action, state, condition or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology or principle or lack thereof.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισμός
Language: grc
Decoded: -ismos
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms abstract nouns.