Lemma vs. Lexeme

A subsidiary proposition assumed to be valid and used to demonstrate a principal proposition.

The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

A theme, argument, or subject indicated in a title.

(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.

A word or phrase treated in a glossary or similar listing.

(strictly) The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.

The lower of the two bracts that enclose each floret in a grass spikelet.

(loosely) The set itself; a lexemic family.

(mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

(loosely) The word-form chosen to represent such a set or family.

The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

(psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

A minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

(botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

(botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

A word that is included in a glossary or list of headwords; a headword.

A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

The head of an annotation or gloss