lexeme

Meaning

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. (broadly, metonymically) 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. (broadly, metonymically) 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.

Synonyms

part of speech

token

word class

grammatical form

Translations

lexème

lexema

lessema

Lexem

lexeem

lexema

lexema

vocabolo

λέξημα

semantema

Lexeme

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈ lɛkˌsiːm/

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.