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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lĕ'ksĭkəl, IPA(key): /ˈlɛksɪkəl/
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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
  4. (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
    Synonyms: lexicographic, lexicographical

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. lexical

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From léxico +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais)

  1. lexical (concerning the words of a language)
    Synonym: léxico

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lexical. By surface analysis, lexic +‎ -al.

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leɡsiˈkal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)

  1. lexical

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