leksikon

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English lexicon, from Medieval Latin or New Latin lexicon, from Ancient Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, a lexicon), neuter of λεξικός (lexikós, of words), from λέξις (léxis, a saying, speech, word), from λέγειν (légein, to speak).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lek‧si‧kon

Noun

leksikon

  1. the vocabulary of a language
  2. (linguistics) a dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λεξικόν (βιβλίον) (lexikón (biblíon), lexicon), derived from λέξις (léxis, saying, speech, word), derived from λέγω (légō, to speak).

Pronunciation

Noun

leksikon n (singular definite leksikonet, plural indefinite leksika or leksikoner)

  1. encyclopedia (a comprehensive reference work with articles on a range of subjects)
  2. lexicon (the entire vocabulary in a given language)

Inflection

See also

Finnish

Noun

leksikon

  1. genitive singular of leksikko

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λεξικόν (lexikón).

Noun

leksikon n (definite singular leksikonet, indefinite plural leksika or leksikon or leksikoner, definite plural leksikaene or leksikona or leksikonene)

  1. an encyclopaedia
  2. a dictionary (now rare)
  3. a lexicon, vocabulary

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λεξικόν (lexikón).

Noun

leksikon n (definite singular leksikonet, indefinite plural leksikon, definite plural leksikona)

  1. an encyclopaedia
  2. (now rare) a dictionary
  3. a lexicon, vocabulary

Inflection

Synonyms

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lěksikoːn/
  • Hyphenation: lek‧si‧kon

Noun

lèksikōn m (Cyrillic spelling лѐксико̄н)

  1. lexicon

Declension