lexeme

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛkˌsiːm/

The English word “lexeme” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
The set itself; a lexemic family.
The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.

Etymology

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.

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