lemma

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lēmma, “premise, assumption”), from λαμβάνω (lambanō, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmə

Noun

lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata)

1. (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
2. (linguistics, usually) The canonical form of an inflected word; usually, for verbs: the infinitive or the present tense, first person singular; and for nouns: the nominative singular.
3. (linguistics, less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.

Synonyms

• citation form

Related terms

• dilemma
• sublemma
• tetralemma
• trilemma

Translations

mathematics: proposition used mainly in the proof of some other proposition

Chinese: Mandarin: 引理 (cmn) (yǐnlǐ) Czech: lemma (cs) n. Esperanto: lemo (eo) French: lemme (fr) m. German: Lemma (de) n. Greek: λήμμα (el) (lémma) f.

Hebrew: למה (he) (Léma) f., טענת עזר (he) (te'anát ézer) f. Icelandic: hjálparsetning (is) f. Italian: lemma (it) n. Polish: lemat (pl) m. Russian: лемма (ru) (lémma) f. Spanish: lema (es) m. Swedish: lemma (sv) n.

liguistics: canonical form of a term

Arabic: سدة (ar) (súdda) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 詞目 (cmn), 词目 (cmn) (címù) Czech: lemma (cs) n. Danish: lemma (da), opslagsord (da), stikord (da) Esperanto: lemo (eo) Finnish: hakusana (fi), lemma (fi) French: lemme (fr) m., entée (fr), terme vedette (fr) German: Lemma (de) n., Stichwort (de) Greek: λήμμα (el) (lémma) f.

Icelandic: fletta (is), flettiorð (is), uppflettimynd (is) f. Ido: lemo (io) Italian: lemma (it) n. Japanese: レンマ (ja) (renma) Norwegian: lemma (no), oppslagsord (no), stikkord (no) Polish: lemma (pl) f. Russian: лемма (ru) (lémma) f. Spanish: lema (es) m. Swedish: lemma (sv), uppslagsord (sv)

See also

• basic form
• canonical form
• citation form
• dictionary form
• headword

External links

Sister projects

• Lemma (disambiguation) on Wikipedia. Wikipedia
• lemma (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:lemma (linguistics)
• lemma (logic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:lemma (logic)
• lemma (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:lemma (mathematics)
• Headword on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Headword

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Czech

Noun

lemma n.

1. (mathematics) lemma
2. (linguistics) lemma (canonical form of a term)

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Finnish

Noun

lemma

1. (mathematics) lemma

Declension

Declension of lemma (type kala) singular plural nominative lemma lemmat genitive lemman lemmojen lemmain1 partitive lemmaa lemmoja accusative lemma lemman lemmat inessive lemmassa lemmoissa elative lemmasta lemmoista illative lemmaan lemmoihin adessive lemmalla lemmoilla ablative lemmalta lemmoilta allative lemmalle lemmoille essive lemmana lemmoina translative lemmaksi lemmoiksi instructive – lemmoin abessive lemmatta lemmoitta comitative – lemmoineen 1) Rare.

Synonyms

• apulause

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Italian

Noun

lemma m. (plural lemmi)

1. lemma
2. entry (in a dictionary)

Anagrams

• melma

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Swedish

Noun

lemma n.

1. a lemma (the canonical, not inflected form of a word, a headword in a dictionary)

Declension

Declension of lemma

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lemma	lemmat	lemman	lemmana
genitive	lemmas	lemmats	lemmans	lemmanas

Related terms

• lemmabestånd
• lemmalakun
• lemmalista
• lemmaordbok
• lemmaselektion
• lemmatecken
• lemmatiserad
• lemmatisering
• lemmatisk

Synonyms

• uppslagsord