Word: deceased
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: de
ceased
Definition: One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
Morphemes:
Affix: decease
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Death, departure from life.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: dēcessus
Language: la
Decoded: decessus
Meaning: departure
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.