Monoseme
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Monoseme is a noun meaning (prosody) A single semeion or mora.
Meaning
(prosody) A single semeion or mora.
More Meanings
- (semantics) A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.
- (semantics) An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.
- (rare) Monosemic.
Example Sentences
The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.
In a given poem, a monoseme contains a short vowel of one mora, and a diseme contains two moras.
A monoseme in the semantic respect is less than a word but in the syntactical configuration — more.
Moreover, a word that is a monoseme in general language can be used equivocally in a special language.
Word Forms
- monosemes
Antonyms for monoseme
Common opposites include polyseme.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semeion, monomoraicity, moneme, monometer, melism, melisma.
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