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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

lexema

Pronunciation / Transliteration: leˈzema

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lexeme/ˈlɛk.siːm/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O lexema 'gato' inclui suas formas como 'gatos' e 'gatinho'."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A set of related word forms that share a common meaning.

    "The lexeme 'child' includes its inflected forms like 'children' and 'child's'."
  2. 2

    The fundamental unit of meaning in a language, representing a single word or a base form of a word.

    "In linguistics, 'run' is a lexeme that can take various forms such as 'running' or 'ran'."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in structural linguistics in the mid-20th century, formed by combining 'lexico-' (derived from Greek lexis, meaning 'word' or 'speech') with the suffix '-eme' (used in linguistics to denote a fundamental unit, analogous to phoneme or morpheme). It emerged to provide a precise theoretical term for a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of inflected forms.

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