lexical

lexical

English

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĕ'ksĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ˈlɛksɪkəl/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

1. (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).

2. (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
3. (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word

   a lexical verb

Synonyms

• lexic

Derived terms

terms derived from lexical (adjective)

• bilexical
• intralexical
• lexical analysis
• lexical analyzer
• lexical definition
• lexicalism
• lexicalist
• lexical item
• lexicality
• lexically
• lexical semantics
• lexical unit
• monolexical
• panlexicalist
• polylexical
• postlexical
• prelexical

Related terms

• lexeme
• lexicalisation, lexicalization
• lexicon
• lexis

 

Translations

of a language's vocabulary

Arabic: مُعْجَمِيّ‎ (muʿjamiyy), مُفْرَدَاتِيّ‎ (mufradātiyy) Belarusian: лексі́чны (ljeksíčny) Bulgarian: лексика́лен (leksikálen) Catalan: lèxic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 詞彙的／词汇的 (zh) (cíhuì de) Czech: lexikální (cs) Danish: leksikal (da) Dutch: lexikaal Esperanto: leksika Finnish: sanastollinen French: lexical (fr) Galician: léxico (gl), lexical German: lexikalisch (de) Irish: léacsach, foclóireachta Italian: lessicale (it) Japanese: 語彙的 (ごいてき, goiteki) Kazakh: лексикалық (leksikalyq) Korean: 어휘적(語彙的) (eohwijeok) Lithuanian: leksinis Macedonian: лексички (leksički) Mongolian: Cyrillic: үгийн (mn) (ügiin) Persian: لغوی‎ (fa) (loğavi) Polish: leksykalny (pl) Portuguese: léxico (pt), lexical (pt) Russian: лекси́ческий (ru) (leksíčeskij) Slovak: lexikálny Spanish: léxico (es), lexical (es) Swedish: lexikalisk (sv) Tajik: луғавӣ (luġavī) Ukrainian: лекси́чний (uk) (leksýčnyj)

of a dictionary

Arabic: قَامُوسِيّ‎ (qāmūsiyy) Belarusian: сло́ўнікавы (slóŭnikavy) Bulgarian: ре́чников (réčnikov) Catalan: lèxic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 詞典的／词典的 (zh) (cídiǎn de) Czech: lexikální (cs) Danish: leksikal (da) Finnish: leksikaalinen (fi) Galician: léxico (gl) Irish: foclóireachta, léacsach Japanese: 語彙的 (ごいてき, goiteki) Lithuanian: žodyninis Portuguese: léxico (pt), lexical (pt) Russian: слова́рный (ru) (slovárnyj) Scottish Gaelic: faclaireil Slovak: lexikálny Spanish: léxico (es) Swedish: lexikalisk (sv) Ukrainian: словнико́вий (slovnykóvyj)

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Translations to be checked

Bengali: (please verify) আভিধানিক (bn) (abhidhanik) Italian: (please verify) lessicale (it) Welsh: (please verify) geiriadurol (cy)

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French

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.kal/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

lexical (feminine lexicale, masculine plural lexicaux, feminine plural lexicales)

1. lexical

Derived terms

• classe lexicale
• mot lexical

Further reading

• “lexical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lek.siˈkaw/ [lek.siˈkaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɛ.ksiˈkal/ [lɛ.ksiˈkaɫ]

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais)

1. Synonym of léxico

Derived terms

• lexicalmente

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Romanian

Etymology

From French lexical.

Adjective

lexical m or n (feminine singular lexicală, masculine plural lexicali, feminine and neuter plural lexicale)

1. lexical

Declension

Declension of lexical

		singular			plural
		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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɡsiˈkal/ [leɣ̞.siˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical (plural lexicales)

1. lexical

Further reading

• “lexical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014