Famine

Morpheme

Famine

Type

free base

Denotation

hunger, starvation

Etymology

Middle English famine; Middle French famine and Anglo-Norman feim, faim; Old French famine, faim; Vulgar Latin *famina; Latin famēs; of unknown origin

Evidence

antifamine, famine, faminee, faminelike, famines, nonfamine, postfamine, prefamine