A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
CLITIC is a
6
letter word starting with
C
and ending with
C
Definitions & Synonyms
noun -
A clitic is a morpheme in linguistics that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonetically on another word or phrase.