containing two morphemes, as the words waited and dogs
Word origin
[1940–45; bi-1 + morpheme + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: sealant, set-aside, silkscreen, update, zapbi- is a combining form meaning “twice,” “two,” used in the formation of compound words.Other words that use the affix bi- include: biceps, bilabial, bipolar, bisect, bivalent; -ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)