Polysemic, monosemic and homonymous words
In this video I will explain polysemic, monosemic and homonymous words.
These are the definitions of these three types of words:
- wordspolysemic: are those to which a signifier corresponds to several meanings related to each other by some aspect (form, closeness, usefulness, function, etc.). The same dictionary entry collects each meaning in different meanings.
- monosemic words: a word is monosemic when it only has a single meaning, that is, its signifier corresponds to a single meaning. They are words with denotative meaning, usually of the scientific field and of Greco-Latin origin.
- homonymous words: Homonymy occurs when two or more words originally had different meanings and signifiers (etymology) and have finished by evolution of the language having different and significant meanings or the same or similar form and are pronounced same. The homonymous words also belong to different grammatical categories.
If you want to practice what you learned in today's class, you can do the printable exercises with their solutions that I have left you on the web.
