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
Origin of lexeme
from Classical Greek lexis, word (see lexicon) + -emelexeme
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lexeme
noun
The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.
Origin of lexeme
lex(icon) -emeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural lexemes)
- (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).
- (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)
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Origin
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λÎξις (léxis, “word") + -eme a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure. Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phÅnÄ“ma, “sound"), from φωνÎω (phÅneÅ, “to sound"), from φωνή (phÅnÄ“, “sound").
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