Lexeme definition
The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.
noun
(linguis.) A word or stem that is a meaningful unit in a language and coincides with the abstract unit underlying a given set of inflected forms.
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Noun
Singular:
lexeme
Plural:
lexemesOrigin of lexeme
- lex(icon) –eme
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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 (phōnÄ“ma, “sound"), from φωνέω (phōneō, “to sound"), from φωνή (phōnÄ“, “sound").
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