monosemes

Noun

monoseme (plural monosemes)

1. A single semeion or mora.
   • The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.2001, John William Johnson, “Computer Technology and the Study of Music and Prosody: The Case of Somali Oral Performance”, in Russell H. Kaschula, editor, African Oral Literature: Functions in...
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.1982, FID/CR Report Series, number 20, International Federation for Documentation, Committee on Classification Research, page 3

   Antonyms:

   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.1972, Linguistics: An International Review, number 77, page 71

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