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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French polysémie, from poli- + sema + -ia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.li.seˈmi.a/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: po‧li‧se‧mì‧a
Noun
polisemia f (countable and uncountable, plural polisemie)
- (linguistics, of a term) polysemy (the characteristic of having multiple meanings)
- (of a literary composition) The characteristic of being interpretable in various ways. (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- Synonym: (rare) plurisemia
References
- polisemia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poliˈsemja/
- Rhymes: -emja
- Syllabification: po‧li‧se‧mia
Noun
polisemia f (plural polisemias)
- polysemy
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