lexeme

See also: Lexeme and lexème

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WOTD – 3 April 2007

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

lexeme ‎(plural lexemes)

(linguistics) A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, so for example the lexeme RUN includes as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), and "ran", but excludes "runner" (a derived term).
(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

unit of vocabulary, the different forms of the same lemma

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)
Czech: lexém (cs) m
Dutch: lexeem n
Esperanto: leksemo
Finnish: lekseemi (fi)
French: lexème (fr) m
Galician: lexema m
German: Lexem (de) n
Greek: λέξημα (el) n ‎(léxima)
Hungarian: lexéma
Icelandic: les n, flettiorð n

computing: continuous character sequence without spaces

lexeme n pl