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see|lexème
was wotd|2007|April|3
English
wikipedia

Pronunciation
enPR|l�ks'�m IPA|/�l�ksi�m/, SAMPA|/"leksi:m/
audio|en-us-lexeme.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

1. linguistics The abstract unit of vocabulary, roughly corresponding to the set of words that are different forms of the same lemma.

Usage notes
term||Ran, term||run, term||runs, and term||running are variations of the English lexeme term|run; whereas term||runner and term||runners aren�t: they are forms of the lexeme term|runner.
Both term|hypodermic|hypodermic and term|dermatologist|dermatologist contain the morpheme term||derm, which is a root form referring to �skin�. This is not a lexeme, though.

Derived terms
lexical
lexemic

Translations
trans-top|unit of vocabulary, the different forms of the same lemma
Croatian: t-|hr|leksem|m
Czech: t+|cs|lexém|m
Dutch: lexeem n
French: t-|fr|lexème|m
Italian: t-|it|lessema|m
Japanese: ��素 (���, goiso)
trans-mid
Russian: лек�ема (lek<u>s�</u>ma) f
Spanish: t+|es|lexema|m
Swedish: t|sv|lexem|n
trans-bottom

See also
top2
chereme
chroneme
grapheme
listeme
morpheme
mid2
phoneme
term
toneme
word
bottom2

Category:Semantics

ru:lexeme
vi:lexeme
tr:lexeme

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