semanteme
noun/sɪˈmæntiːm/
/sɪˈmæntiːm/
(also seme)
(linguistics)- the smallest possible unit of meaning compare sememeWord Originearly 20th cent.: from French sémantème, from sémantique (from Greek sēmantikos ‘significant’, from sēmainein ‘signify’, from sēma ‘sign’), on the pattern of words such as morphème ‘morpheme’.
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