semanteme
noun /sɪˈmæntiːm/
/sɪˈmæntiːm/
(also seme)
(linguistics- the smallest possible unit of meaning
compare sememe含义的最小可能单位 词源early 20th cent.: from French sémantème, from sémantique (from Greek sēmantikos ‘significant’, from sēmainein ‘signify’, from sēma ‘sign’), on the pattern of words such as morphème ‘morpheme’.