Adjective: lexicographic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lexicographic |
| Superlative | most lexicographic |
Sample Sentences
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A major lexicographic enterprise is the Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico, conducted at the universities of Kiel and Münster in Germany (Dietrich and Symeonidis 2009). [2012, De Gruyter Mouton, The Indigenous Languages of South America, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2026, page 28:]
Adjectives inflected like lexicographic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti
4. Proto-Hellenic *légō
5. Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
7. Proto-Hellenic *-tis
8. Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
9. Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
10. Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs)
11. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
12. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
13. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
14. Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
15. Ancient Greek λεξῐκός (lexĭkós)
16. English lexico-
17. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
18. Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
19. Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
20. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
21. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
22. Proto-Hellenic *-ā́
23. Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
24. Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
25. Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
26. Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
27. French -graphieder.
28. English -graphy
29. English lexicography
30. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
31. Proto-Italic *-ikos
32. Latin -icuslbor.
33. Old French -iquebor.
34. Middle English -ik
35. English -ic
36. English lexicographic
37. From lexicography + -ic.
Verbs referencing "lexicographic"
Finnish Adjectives
leksikografinen.