lexical

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lexis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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／词汇的 (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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 語彙的 (ごいてき, goiteki)
• Lithuanian: leksinis
• Mongolian: үгийн (mn) (ügiin)
• 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／词典的 (zh), 词典的 (zh) (cídiǎn de)

• Czech: lexikální (cs)
• Danish: leksikal (da)
• Finnish: leksikaalinen (fi)
• Galician: léxico (gl)
• Irish: foclóireachta, léacsach
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} আভিধানিক (abhidhanik)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lessicale (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} geiriadurol (cy)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lexis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.kal/

Adjective

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

1. lexical

External links

• “lexical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. Synonym of léxico

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Spanish

Adjective

lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)

1. lexical