Contextualizebeta

lemma

noun
/ˈlɛmə/US/ˈlɪmə/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

  1. derived from λῆμμα

Definitions

  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

    • "We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," [Dr. Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."

  2. The canonical form of an inflected word

    The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

    • Holonym: lexeme (holonymous sense)
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:lemma.

  3. The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning,…

    The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

    2. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

    3. A female given name.

The neighborhood

Derived

Bézout's lemma, Euclid's lemma, five lemma, Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma, lemmatize, Neyman-Pearson lemma, pentalemma, pumping lemma, Riemann-Lebesgue lemma, Sperner's lemma, Stein's lemma, Teichmüller-Tukey lemma, Tukey's lemma, Urysohn's lemma, Yao's lemma, Yoneda lemma, Zorn's lemma, cytolemma, karyolemma, myolemma, neurilemma, neurolemma, oolemma, plasmalemma, sarcolemma

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lemma. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA