lexeme

See also: Lexeme and lexème

English

WOTD – 3 April 2007

Etymology

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 (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĕks'ēm IPA^(key): /ˈlɛksiːm/

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Noun

Examples (linguistics)
The lexeme run includes as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), and "ran", but excludes "runner" (a derived term).

lexeme (plural lexemes)

1. (linguistics) A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word.
   • 2014 September 25, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology‎^[1], page 347:

     In a typical lexicalist approach (e.g. Koontz-Garboden 2006), the unmarked lexeme is taken as lexically listed, even if its meaning (as it often does) includes templatic entailments, and the derivational morphology is taken to operate on the underived form to yield the derived form. This is the case not only morphologically, but also semantically.

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

Derived terms

• lexical
• lexemic
• lexome

Translations

unit of vocabulary, the different forms of the same lemma

• Arabic: لِكْسِيم‎ m (liksīm), مُفْرَدَة‎ f (mufrada)
• Armenian: բառույթ (hy) (baṙuytʿ)
• Azerbaijani: leksem
• Belarusian: лексе́ма f (ljeksjéma), лексэ́ма f (ljekséma) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: лексе́ма f (lekséma)
• Catalan: lexema (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞位 (zh), 词位 (zh) (cíwèi), 詞彙單位, 词汇单位 (cíhuì dānwèi), 詞 (zh), 词 (zh) (cí), 詞素 (zh), 词素 (zh) (císù)

• Czech: lexém (cs) m
• Danish: leksem (da) n
• Dutch: lexeem (nl) n
• Esperanto: leksemo
• Estonian: lekseem
• Finnish: lekseemi (fi)
• French: lexème (fr) m
• Galician: lexema m
• Georgian: ლექსემა (leksema)
• German: Lexem (de) n
• Greek: λέξημα (el) n (léxima)
• Hindi: शब्दिम (śabdim)
• Hungarian: lexéma (hu)
• Icelandic: les (is) n, flettiorð n
• Ido: lexemo (io)

• Italian: lessema m
• Japanese: 語彙素 (ja) (ごいそ, goiso)
• Khmer: វចនតា (km) (vaccaʼnaʼtaa)
• Korean: 어휘소 (eohwiso)
• Lithuanian: leksema f
• Macedonian: лексема f (leksema)
• Malay: leksem
• Malayalam: കോശിമം (kōśimaṃ) (jargon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leksem n

  Nynorsk: leksem n

• Persian: تکواژه‎ (fa) (takvâže)
• Polish: leksem (pl) m
• Portuguese: lexema (pt) m, semantema (pt) m
• Romanian: lexem (ro) n
• Russian: лексе́ма (ru) f (lekséma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лексем m

  Roman: leksem (sh) m

• Slovak: lexéma f
• Slovene: leksem m
• Spanish: lexema (es) m
• Swedish: lexem (sv) n
• Ukrainian: лексе́ма (uk) f (lekséma)
• Vietnamese: từ vị (vi)

computing: continuous character sequence without spaces

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞素 (zh), 词素 (zh) (císù)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: lekseemi (fi)
• Icelandic: les (is) n
• Russian: лексе́ма (ru) f (lekséma)

See also

• chereme
• chroneme
• grapheme
• hypheme
• lingueme
• listeme
• morpheme
• phoneme
• solideme
• term
• toneme
• word

 

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Noun

lexeme n pl

1. plural of lexem