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English
Etymology
polyseme + -y
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/, /pə.ˈlɪ.sɪ.mi/
Noun
polysemy (usually uncountable, plural polysemies)
- (semantics) The property of a word, sign or symbol that can represent multiple meanings, including multiple similar ones.
2011, Brigitte Nerlich, Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, page 3:Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy, the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is "the pivot of semantic analysis" (Ullmann 1957 [1951]: 117).
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Translations
ability to have multiple meanings
- Albanian: polisemi (sq) f
- Arabic: تَعَدُّدُ مَعَانٍ m (taʕaddudu maʕānin)
- Armenian: բազմիմաստություն (hy) (bazmimastutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani:
- Cyrillic: полисемия
- Roman: polisemiya
- Basque: polisemia
- Belarusian: полісемія f (pólisjemija)
- Breton: liessteriegezh f
- Bulgarian: полисемия f (polisemija)
- Catalan: polisèmia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 多義性/多义性 (do1 ji6 sing3)
- Mandarin: 一詞多義/一词多义 (yīcí duōyì), 多義性/多义性 (zh) (duōyìxìng)
- Crimean Tatar: çoqmanalılıq
- Czech: polysémie (cs) f
- Danish: polysemi (da) c
- Dutch: polysemie (nl) f
- Esperanto: polisemio
- Finnish: polysemia (fi), monimerkityksisyys (fi)
- French: polysémie (fr) f
- Galician: polisemia (gl) f
- Georgian: პოლისემია (ṗolisemia), მრავალმნიშვენლიანობა (mravalmnišvenlianoba)
- German: Polysemie (de) f, Mehrdeutigkeit (de) f
- Greek: πολυσημία (el) f (polysimía)
- Hungarian: poliszémia (hu)
- Ido: polisemio (io)
- Indonesian: polisemi (id)
- Irish: ilchiallachas m
- Italian: polisemia (it) f
- Japanese: 多義性 (たぎせい, tagisei)
- Kazakh: полисемия (polisemiä)
- Korean: 다의성 (ko) (dauiseong)
- Kyrgyz: полисемия (polisemiya)
- Latvian: polisēmija f
- Lithuanian: polisemija f
- Macedonian: полисемија f (polisemija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: polysemi m
- Nynorsk: polysemi m
- Persian: چندمعنایی (fa)
- Polish: polisemia (pl) f, wieloznaczność (pl) f
- Portuguese: polissemia (pt) f
- Romanian: polisemie (ro) f
- Russian: полисеми́я (ru) f (polisemíja), многозна́чность (ru) f (mnogoznáčnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: полисѐмија f
- Roman: polisèmija (sh) f
- Slovak: polysémia f, mnohoznačnosť f
- Slovene: polisemija f, večpomenskost f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: polysemija f
- Upper Sorbian: polysemija f
- Spanish: polisemia (es) f
- Swedish: polysemi (sv) c
- Turkish: çokanlamlılık
- Ukrainian: полісемія f (polisemija), багатозначність (uk) f (bahatoznačnistʹ)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: полисемия (uz) (polisemiya)
- Roman: polisemiya (uz)
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