Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA unit of semiology or semantics.
From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on. By surface analysis, seme + -on.
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