Chroneme

Origin

From Ancient Greek χρόνος + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα ("sound"), from φωνέω ("to sound"), from φωνή ("sound").

Noun

1. a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant

Anagrams

• chromene

Related terms

• chrono-