Jump to content

polysemous

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Medieval Latin polysēmus, from Ancient Greek πολύσημος (polúsēmos), from πολύς (polús, many) + σημαίνω (sēmaínō, I signify, mean).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

polysemous (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of polysemic.
    • 2000, Yael Ravin, Claudia Leacock, Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches, Oxford: OUP, →ISBN, page 52:
      But just how are the meanings associated with a polysemous word related? A look at the entries for polysemous words in different dictionaries shows that lexicographers cannot agree on how to divide up the semantic space []
[edit]

Translations

[edit]