Word: machoism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ma
cho
ism
Definition: machismo; exaggerated masculinity
Morphemes:
Affix: macho
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: m-
Language: en
Decoded: m-
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: meta-
Affix: a
Language: en
Decoded: a
PoS: Article
Meaning: Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
Affix: -s
Language: en
Decoded: -s
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.
Affix: -culus
Language: la
Decoded: -culus
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: alternative form of "-ulus"; added to a noun to form a diminutive of that noun.
Affix: -ism
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns indicating a peculiarity or characteristic of language
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισμός
Language: grc
Decoded: -ismos
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms abstract nouns.