"polisemia" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Italian]

IPA: /po.li.seˈmi.a/ Forms: polisemie [plural]
Rhymes: -ia Etymology: Borrowed from French polysémie, from poli- + sema + -ia. Etymology templates: {{bor+|it|fr|polysémie}} Borrowed from French polysémie, {{af|it|poli-|sema|-ia<id:stressed>}} poli- + sema + -ia Head templates: {{it-noun|f|~}} polisemia f (countable and uncountable, plural polisemie)
  1. (linguistics, of a term) polysemy (the characteristic of having multiple meanings) Tags: countable, feminine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-polisemia-it-noun-4GsM4Zbf Categories (other): Linguistics, Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian terms prefixed with poli-, Italian terms suffixed with -ia (stressed) Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of Italian terms prefixed with poli-: 74 26 Disambiguation of Italian terms suffixed with -ia (stressed): 72 28 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (of a literary composition) The characteristic of being interpretable in various ways. Tags: countable, feminine, uncountable Synonyms: plurisemia [rare]
    Sense id: en-polisemia-it-noun-5-7FIarF Categories (other): Italian requests for English equivalent term, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 77

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /poliˈsemja/, [po.liˈse.mja] Forms: polisemias [plural]
Rhymes: -emja Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} polisemia f (plural polisemias)
  1. polysemy Tags: feminine Related terms: polisémico
    Sense id: en-polisemia-es-noun-yqt7jc4n Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Linguistics

Inflected forms

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