Meaning

4 senses
  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.

    The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.

  2. (broadly, metonymically)The set itself; a lexemic family.

  3. (broadly, metonymically)The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.

    Lexem

    лексе́маlekséma

    лексе́маlekséma

  4. An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.

    Near-synonym: token

    лексе́маlekséma

More definitions
  • a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; ‘go’ and ‘went’ and ‘gone’ and ‘going’ are all members of the English lexeme ‘go’

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma:
Русский
By meaning 1
linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma:

Origin

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a f

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.

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