English Explanatory Dictionary

lexeme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
  2. The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
  3. The set itself; a lexemic family.
  4. The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
  5. An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.

Pronunciation

/ˈlɛkˌsiːm/ lĕkˈsēmˌ en-us-lexeme.ogg

Word forms

lexeme lexemes

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, on the model of phoneme.

Synonyms

lexical item semanteme base form basic form canonical form citation form dictionary form headword lemma token

Related words

lexical lexical unit chereme chroneme grapheme hypheme lingueme listeme morpheme phoneme principal part solideme term toneme word

Derived words

interlexeme lexemehood lexemic

Translations

Arabic: لِكْسِيم Arabic: مُفْرَدَة Armenian: բառույթ Azerbaijani: leksem Belarusian: лексе́ма Belarusian: лексэ́ма Bulgarian: лексе́ма Catalan: lexema Chinese Mandarin: 詞位 /词位 Chinese Mandarin: 詞彙單位 /词汇单位 Chinese Mandarin: 詞 /词 Chinese Mandarin: 詞素 /词素 Czech: lexém Danish: leksem Dutch: lexeem Esperanto: leksemo Estonian: lekseem Finnish: lekseemi French: lexème Galician: lexema Georgian: ლექსემა German: Lexem Greek: λέξημα Hindi: शब्दिम Hungarian: lexéma Icelandic: les Icelandic: flettiorð Ido: lexemo Italian: lessema Japanese: 語彙素 Khmer: វចនតា Korean: 어휘소 Lithuanian: leksema Macedonian: лексема Malay: leksem Malayalam: കോശിമം Norwegian Bokmål: leksem Norwegian Nynorsk: leksem Persian: تکواژه Polish: leksem Portuguese: lexema Portuguese: semantema Romanian: lexem Russian: лексе́ма Serbo-Croatian: лексем Serbo-Croatian: leksem Slovak: lexéma Slovene: leksem
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