lexical

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words 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
• 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

• Belarusian: лексі́чны (ljeksíčny)
• Catalan: lèxic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞彙的 (zh), 词汇的 (zh) (cíhuì de)

• Czech: lexikální (cs)
• Danish: leksikal (da)
• Esperanto: leksika
• Finnish: sanastollinen
• Galician: léxico (gl), lexical
• German: lexikalisch (de)
• Irish: léacsach, foclóireachta

• Japanese: 語彙的 (ごいてき, goiteki)
• Lithuanian: leksinis
• Mongolian: үгийн (mn) (ügijn)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: лекси́чний (uk) (leksýčnyj)

of a dictionary

• Catalan: lèxic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞典的 (zh), 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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} আভিধানিক (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/

Adjective

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

1. lexical

External links

• “lexical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais, comparable)

1. Synonym of léxico

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Spanish

Adjective

lexical (plural lexicales)

1. lexical