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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈlɛksɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: lexises [plural], lexes [plural], lexeis [plural]
enPR: lĕkʹsĭs [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -ɛksəs Etymology: From Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from λεγ- (leg-, “to speak”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|λέξις|t=diction”, “word}} Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), {{m|grc||λεγ-|t=to speak}} λεγ- (leg-, “to speak”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|+|lexes|lexeis}} lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)
  1. (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-lexis-en-noun-O3kt4vqU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 48 9 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-lexis-en-noun-glvcs~70 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 48 9
  3. The vocabulary used by a writer Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-lexis-en-noun-PO2ekE6S
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lexiplacy, lexoplacy (english: word-coining, word-creation) Related terms: lexeme, lexicalization, lexicalize, lexome Coordinate_terms: lexicon

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈlek.sis/ [Classical], [ˈɫ̪ɛks̠ɪs̠] [Classical], /ˈlek.sis/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈlɛksis] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|λέξις}} Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis) Head templates: {{la-noun|lexis<irreg>|g=f}} lexis f (irregular, genitive lexeōs); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|lexis<irreg>|acc_pl=lexīs/lexeis}} Forms: lexeōs [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], lexis [nominative, singular], - [nominative, plural], lexeōs [genitive, singular], - [genitive, plural], - [dative, singular], - [dative, plural], - [accusative, singular], lexīs [accusative, plural], lexeis [accusative, plural], - [ablative, singular], - [ablative, plural], - [singular, vocative], - [plural, vocative]
  1. a word Tags: declension-3, feminine, irregular Synonyms: dictiō, verbum
    Sense id: en-lexis-la-noun-mTphU5VH Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.