Noun: lexicon
| Singular | lexicon |
| Plural | lexica; lexicons |
Sample Sentences
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Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions. [1979, Charles C. Lemert, “Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology”, in The American Journal of Sociology, volume 84, number 4, page 944:]
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Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation. [2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:]
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the baseball lexicon
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Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance. [2002, Robert Wuthnow, Vocabularies Of Public Life, page 171:]
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a baseball lexicon
Nouns inflected like lexicon
periuranion,
tetradrachmon,
elementary cellular automaton,
paregmenon,
pyramidion,
trisagion,
rhombicuboctahedron,
nychthemeron,
monohedron,
subtaxon,
enneadecahedron,
pseudorhombicuboctahedron,
hexakisoctahedron,
tetrahedron,
polyptoton,
hexaemeron,
hexadecahedron,
aphelion,
hexahedron,
snub dodecahedron, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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'.
Verbs referencing "lexicon"
French Nouns
lexique, Finnish Nouns
leksikko.