lexicography

English

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Etymology

lexico- + -graphy

Noun

lexicography (uncountable)

1. The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
2. (linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

Related terms

• lexicographer
• lexicon
• lexicology

Translations

art or craft of writing dictionaries

Catalan: lexicografia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 詞典學 (zh), 词典学 (zh) (cídiǎnxué), 辭書學 (zh), 辞书学 (zh) (císhūxué), 詞典編輯 (zh), 词典编辑 (zh) (cídiǎn biānjí) Croatian: leksikografija (hr) f. Czech: lexikografie (cs) f. Danish: leksikografi (da) Dutch: lexicografie (nl) f. Esperanto: leksikografio (eo) Finnish: leksikografia (fi) French: lexicographie (fr) f. German: Lexikographie (de) f. Greek: λεξικογραφία (el) (leksikografía) f. Icelandic: orðabókafræði (is) f., orðabókargerð (is) f., samning orðabókar (is) f. Interlingua: lexicographia

Irish: foclóireacht (ga) f. Italian: lessicografia (it) f. Japanese: 辞書編集 (ja) (じしょへんしゅう, jisho henshū) Khmer: វចនលេខន៍ (km) (vaj ja nak lek) Korean: 사전학 (ko) (sajeonhak) (詞典學 (ko)) Lithuanian: leksikografija (lt) f. Norwegian: leksikografi (no) Persian: فرهنگ‌نویسی (fa) (farhang-navisi) Portuguese: lexicografia (pt) f. Russian: лексикография (ru) (leksikográfija) f. Scottish Gaelic: faclaireachd (gd) f. Spanish: lexicografía (es) f. Swedish: lexikografi (sv) Tamil: பேரகரமுதலி (ta) Vietnamese: từ điển học (vi) (詞典學 (vi))