polisemia

See also: polisèmia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French polysémie, from poli- +‎ sema +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.li.seˈmi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: po‧li‧se‧mì‧a

Noun

polisemia f (countable and uncountable, plural polisemie)

1. (linguistics, of a term) polysemy (the characteristic of having multiple meanings)
2. (of a literary composition) The characteristic of being interpretable in various ways. (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

   Synonym: (rare) plurisemia

References

• polisemia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poliˈsemja/ [po.liˈse.mja]
• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: po‧li‧se‧mia

Noun

polisemia f (plural polisemias)

1. polysemy

Related terms

• polisémico

 

Further reading

• “polisemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014