lexeme

Signification (English)

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. 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.
3. 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.
4. An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

Concepts

lexème

Synonyms

part of speech

token

word class

grammatical form

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈ lɛkˌsiːm/

Étymologie (English)

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure. Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).