English word lexeme comes from French -al, English -al, Ancient Greek λέξις, and later Latin lexis (A word.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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-al | French (fr) | -al (of or pertaining to; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also). |
-al | English (en) | (organic chemistry) Forms the names of aldehydes. Forming nouns, especially of verbal action.. Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also. |
λέξις | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
lexis | Latin (lat) | A word. |
lexeme | English (en) | (computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).. (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). |