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homo- +‎ seme +‎ -ous

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homosemous (not comparable)

  1. Having the same or identical meaning; exactly synonymous.
    • 1990, Martin Haspelmath, “The morph as a minimal linguistic form”, in Morphology[1], volume 30, →DOI, pages 117–134:
      ...They can say (i) that -s and -en are two different (but homosemous) morphemes expressing plural meaning (sense 1)...

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