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.
Webster's New World

(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)

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Other Word Forms of Lexeme

Noun

Singular:
lexeme
Plural:
lexemes

Origin of Lexeme

  • 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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