Word: catchwaters
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: catch
wa
ters
Definition: Plural of catchwater; device is a large-scale man-made device for catching surface runoff from hills and the sky from precipitation by channeling it to reservoirs for commercial and domestic use later
Morphemes:
Affix: catch
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Something which is captured or caught.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: capiō
Language: la
Decoded: capio
Meaning: take, capture
Affix: -tō
Language: la
Decoded: -to
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms action nouns from verbs.
Affix: water
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Water in a body; an area of open water.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.