lexical
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
lexical (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 137:
- So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of
complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo-
gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric-
tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with
every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are
lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items,
so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range
of complements).
- (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
- (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- a lexical verb
- (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
- Synonyms: lexicographic, lexicographical
Synonyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
terms derived from lexical (adjective)
- bilexical
- intralexical
- lexical analysis
- lexical analyzer
- lexical aspect
- lexical bundle
- lexical category
- lexical correspondence
- lexical definition
- lexical gap
- lexicalism
- lexicalist
- lexical item
- lexicality
- lexically
- lexical scope
- lexical scoping
- lexical semantics
- lexical unit
- lexical verb
- monolexical
- non-lexical
- panlexicalist
- polylexical
- postlexical
- prelexical
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French Edit
Etymology Edit
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
lexical (feminine lexicale, masculine plural lexicaux, feminine plural lexicales)
Derived terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “lexical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
lexical m or f (plural lexicais)
Derived terms Edit
Romanian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French lexical. By surface analysis, lexic + -al.
Adjective Edit
lexical m or n (feminine singular lexicală, masculine plural lexicali, feminine and neuter plural lexicale)
Declension Edit
Declension of lexical
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | lexical | lexicală | lexicali | lexicale | ||
definite | lexicalul | lexicala | lexicalii | lexicalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | lexical | lexicale | lexicali | lexicale | ||
definite | lexicalului | lexicalei | lexicalilor | lexicalelor |
Spanish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)
Further reading Edit
- “lexical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014