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