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classeme

noun

Etymology

From class + -eme.

  1. derived from *kelh₁-✻ — “to call, shout”
  2. derived from classis
  3. borrowed from classe
  4. suffixed as classeme — “class + eme”

Definitions

  1. A generic or contextual seme, denoting a group of objects.

    • Given that "bark" has two classemes, human and canine, it is the presence of the dog or the commissioner that decides whether "bark" is taken in a literal or figurative sense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for classeme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA