Meaning
A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
Etymology
Origin: Latin
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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
lexical itemsemantemebase formbasic formcanonical formcitation formdictionary formheadwordlemmatoken
NYT Puzzle Appearances
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