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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, speech, word).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)

  1. (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 249:
      Thus, alongside current lexis, words and senses now obsolete find a place in a dictionary on historical principles.
  2. (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
    • 2014, Paul Lindsay, Teaching English Worldwide, page 346:
      By the 1980s, English language teachers generally had begun to realize that there had been a neglect of lexis in teaching methods and coursebooks. [] The basic truth that without vocabulary or lexis we can't express anything had to be restated and a new approach to teaching lexis was needed.
  3. The vocabulary used by a writer.
    In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lexis f (genitive lexis or lexeōs or lexios); third declension

  1. a word

Declension

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

singular plural
nominative lexis lexēs
lexeis
genitive lexis
lexeōs
lexios
lexium
dative lexī lexibus
accusative lexim
lexin
lexem1
lexīs
lexe͡is
ablative lexī
lexe1
lexibus
vocative lexis
lexi
lexēs
lexeis

1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • lexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lexis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lexis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis).

Noun

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lexis n (plural lexise)

  1. (obsolete) word

Declension

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Declension of lexis
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative lexis lexisul lexise lexisele
genitive-dative lexis lexisului lexise lexiselor
vocative lexisule lexiselor

References

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  • lexis in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN