lexicon
nounEtymology
Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.
Definitions
The vocabulary of a language.
- Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions.
A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
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The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
Any dictionary.
The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)
A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
- the baseball lexicon
- Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance.
To add to a lexicon.
- Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
To shorten a soundtrack to fit a shortened version of a movie.
- Mrazek’s legislation would discourage time compression, a technique used to speed up a movie, and “lexiconing,” a process of altering the soundtrack to match the shorter, compressed version.
The neighborhood
- neighborlexical
- neighborlexicography
- neighborlexicology
- neighborlexiconophilia
- neighborlexiconophilist
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lexicon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lexicon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at lexicon
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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