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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.
The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: strictly
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lexical item, semanteme
Antonyms: none provided
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.
The set itself; a lexemic family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, metonymically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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.
The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, metonymically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: base form, basic form, canonical form, citation form, dictionary form, headword, lemma
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wordform, form
An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: token
Antonyms: none provided
a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: language unit, linguistic unit
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.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
لِكْسِيم
(liksīm)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Arabic:
مُفْرَدَة
(mufrada)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Armenian:
բառույթ
(baṙuytʻ)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Azerbaijani:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Belarusian:
лексе́ма
(ljeksjéma)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Belarusian:
лексэ́ма
(ljekséma)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Bulgarian:
лексе́ма
(lekséma)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Catalan:
lexema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Chinese Mandarin:
詞位 /词位
(cíwèi)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Chinese Mandarin:
詞彙單位 /词汇单位
(cíhuì dānwèi)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Chinese Mandarin:
詞 /词
(cí)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Chinese Mandarin:
詞素 /词素
(císù)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Czech:
lexém
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Danish:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Dutch:
lexeem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Esperanto:
leksemo
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Estonian:
lekseem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Finnish:
lekseemi
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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French:
lexème
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Galician:
lexema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Georgian:
ლექსემა
(leksema)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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German:
Lexem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Greek:
λέξημα
(léxima)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Hindi:
शब्दिम
(śabdim)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Hungarian:
lexéma
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Icelandic:
les
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Icelandic:
flettiorð
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Ido:
lexemo
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Italian:
lessema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Japanese:
語彙素
(goiso)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Khmer:
វចនតា
(vaccaʼnaʼtaa)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Korean:
어휘소
(eohwiso)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Lithuanian:
leksema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Macedonian:
лексема
(leksema)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Malay:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Malayalam:
കോശിമം
(kōśimaṁ)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Norwegian Bokmål:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Persian:
تکواژه
(takvâže)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Polish:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Portuguese:
lexema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Portuguese:
semantema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Romanian:
lexem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Russian:
лексе́ма
(lekséma)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Serbo-Croatian:
лексем
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Serbo-Croatian:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Slovak:
lexéma
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Slovene:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Spanish:
lexema
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Swedish:
lexem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Turkish:
leksem
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Turkish:
sözlükbirim
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Ukrainian:
лексе́ма
(lekséma)
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Vietnamese:
từ vị
— linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma
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Chinese Mandarin:
詞素 /词素
(císù)
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Czech:
lexém
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Esperanto:
simbolo
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Finnish:
lekseemi
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Icelandic:
les
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Polish:
leksem
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
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Russian:
лексе́ма
(lekséma)
— computing: continuous character sequence without spaces
