Form
Of word and linguistics. May also be referred to as descriptor, signifier and word form.
The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached".
This concept's ID is @1~33716
Contains
- plural
The form of a word that is used to denote more than one.
- acronym
A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name.
- abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase.
- ghost word
A word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error.
- stem
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of...
- root
A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can...
- citation form
The form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary.
- singular
The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton.