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monoseme

noun monosemes

  1. A single semeion or mora. The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.
  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.

    Opposite: polyseme

  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.

adjective

  1. not comparable, rare Monosemic. Thus, in the early period of PIE lexical units having conglomerate monoseme internal forms with “existential” (motional), “spatial”, and “temporal” meanings began to polarize.

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@misc{monoseme_2026,
  title = {monoseme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/monoseme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}