Lexeme Definition
lĕksēm
noun
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:
lexemePlural:
lexemesOrigin of Lexeme
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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").
From Wiktionary
lex(icon) –eme
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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