lexeme

Meaning

Noun

• A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word.
• An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

Origin

• From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις ("word") -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure. Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα ("sound"), from φωνέω, from φωνή.