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Monoseme

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Monosemic. not-comparable, rare

    "Thus, in the early period of PIE lexical units having conglomerate monoseme internal forms with “existential” (motional), “spatial”, and “temporal” meanings began to polarize."

Noun
  1. 1
    A single semeion or mora.

    "The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme."

  2. 2
    A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.

    "Moreover, a word that is a monoseme in general language can be used equivocally in a special language."

  3. 3
    An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.

    "A monoseme in the semantic respect is less than a word but in the syntactical configuration — more."

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