Word: casteism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: caste
ism
Definition: discrimination based on a person's caste
Morphemes:
Affix: caste
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: castus
Language: la
Decoded: castus
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: religious, pious
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.