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- Ancient Greek · derived fromλέξις“word”
- Latin · derived fromlexis
- English todaylexeme
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.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.