lexeme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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.
Affixes: -eme
Inflected forms:
form: lexemes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning, which exists regardless of any inflectional endings it may have or the number of words it may contain. Thus, fibrillate, rain cats and dogs, and come in are all lexemes, as are elephant, jog, cholesterol, happiness, put up with, face the music, and hundreds of thousands of other meaningful items in English.
In a typical lexicalist approach (e.g. Koontz-Garboden 2006), the unmarked lexeme is taken as lexically listed, even if its meaning (as it often does) includes templatic entailments, and the derivational morphology is taken to operate on the underived form to yield the derived form. This is the case not only morphologically, but also semantically.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
metonymically
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
metonymically
examples: For the second sense, where “word” means “item that should have its own dictionary entry,” lexicographers sometimes use the term “lemma,” but that has other meanings too, so among linguists the term lexeme is now standard, and I’ll use it. For the different forms or shapes that belong to a lexeme we can use the term word-form. ¶ And as a typographical convention, from now on I’ll always put lexeme names in bold italics with a capital letter. So I’ll say there is a lexeme called Pamper [emphasis in original]. It’s the name of a small collection of word-forms with particular spellings – four of them: pamper, pampered, pampering, and pampers. I will always put word-forms (and all the phrases and clauses I mention as examples) in italics.
gloss: An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: 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:
lang: Arabic
word: لِكْسِيم
roman: liksīm
lang: Arabic
word: مُفْرَدَة
roman: mufrada
lang: Armenian
word: բառույթ
roman: baṙuytʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: leksem
lang: Belarusian
word: лексе́ма
roman: ljeksjéma
lang: Belarusian
word: лексэ́ма
roman: ljekséma
lang: Bulgarian
word: лексе́ма
roman: lekséma
lang: Catalan
word: lexema
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 詞位 /词位
roman: cíwèi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 詞彙單位 /词汇单位
roman: cíhuì dānwèi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 詞 /词
roman: cí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 詞素 /词素
roman: císù
lang: Czech
word: lexém
lang: Danish
word: leksem
lang: Dutch
word: lexeem
lang: Esperanto
word: leksemo
lang: Estonian
word: lekseem
lang: Finnish
word: lekseemi
lang: French
word: lexème
lang: Galician
word: lexema
lang: Georgian
word: ლექსემა
roman: leksema
lang: German
word: Lexem
lang: Greek
word: λέξημα
roman: léxima
lang: Hindi
word: शब्दिम
roman: śabdim
lang: Hungarian
word: lexéma
lang: Icelandic
word: les
lang: Icelandic
word: flettiorð
lang: Ido
word: lexemo
lang: Italian
word: lessema
lang: Japanese
word: 語彙素
roman: goiso
lang: Khmer
word: វចនតា
roman: vaccaʼnaʼtaa
lang: Korean
word: 어휘소
roman: eohwiso
lang: Lithuanian
word: leksema
lang: Macedonian
word: лексема
roman: leksema
lang: Malay
word: leksem
lang: Malayalam
word: കോശിമം
roman: kōśimaṁ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: leksem
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: leksem
lang: Persian
word: تکواژه
roman: takvâže
lang: Polish
word: leksem
lang: Portuguese
word: lexema
lang: Portuguese
word: semantema
lang: Romanian
word: lexem
lang: Russian
word: лексе́ма
roman: lekséma
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: лексем
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: leksem
lang: Slovak
word: lexéma
lang: Slovene
word: leksem
lang: Spanish
word: lexema
lang: Swedish
word: lexem
lang: Turkish
word: leksem
lang: Turkish
word: sözlükbirim
lang: Ukrainian
word: лексе́ма
roman: lekséma
lang: Vietnamese
word: từ vị