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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech, word”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɛksɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛksəs
Noun
lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/, [ˈɫ̪ɛks̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/, [ˈlɛksis]
Noun
lexis f (irregular, genitive lexeōs); third declension
- a word
Declension
Third-declension noun (irregular, Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lexis | — |
Genitive | lexeōs | — |
Dative | — | — |
Accusative | — | lexīs lexeis |
Ablative | — | — |
Vocative | — | — |
Note: The plural form is also spelled λέξεις (léxeis).
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Further reading
- “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
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