Word: murderess
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: mur
der
ess
Definition: female equivalent of murderer.: a woman who commits murder.
Morphemes:
Affix: murder
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
Affix: -ess
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Suffix appended to words to make a female form.Examples.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισσα
Language: grc
Decoded: -issa
PoS: Noun
Meaning: femininizes masculine nouns in the first declension