lexical

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences 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

4. (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

   Synonyms: lexicographic, lexicographical

Synonyms

• lexic

Derived terms

terms derived from lexical (adjective)

• alexical
• bilexical
• delexical
• extralexical
• grammaticolexical
• interlexical
• intralexical
• lexical analysis
• lexical analyzer
• lexical aspect
• lexical bundle
• lexical category
• lexical choice
• lexical correspondence
• lexical definition
• lexical density
• lexical gap
• lexical innovation
• lexicalism
• lexicalist
• lexical item
• lexicality
• lexicalize
• lexically
• lexical middle voice
• lexical resource
• lexical scope
• lexical scoping
• lexical semantics
• lexical set
• lexical simplification
• lexical substitution
• lexical unit
• lexical verb
• lexicase
• monolexical
• morpholexical
• nonlexical
• non-lexical
• panlexicalist
• paralexical
• polylexical
• postlexical
• prelexical
• pseudolexical
• psycholexical
• sublexical
• supralexical
• unlexical

 

Related terms

• lexeme
• lexicalisation, lexicalization
• lexicon
• lexis

 

Translations

of a language's vocabulary

• Arabic: مُعْجَمِيّ (muʕjamiyy), مُفْرَدَاتِيّ (mufradātiyy)
• Belarusian: лексі́чны (ljeksíčny)
• Bulgarian: лексика́лен (leksikálen)
• Catalan: lèxic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞彙的 / 词汇的 (zh) (cíhuì de)

• Czech: lexikální (cs)
• Danish: leksikal (da)
• Dutch: lexikaal
• Esperanto: leksika
• Finnish: sanastollinen
• French: lexical (fr)
• Galician: léxico (gl), lexical (gl)
• German: lexikalisch (de)
• Irish: léacsach, foclóireachta
• Italian: lessicale (it)
• Japanese: 語彙的 (ごいてき, goiteki)
• Kazakh: лексикалық (leksikalyq)
• Korean: 어휘적(語彙的) (eohwijeok)
• Lithuanian: leksinis
• Macedonian: лексички (leksički)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: 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)
• Tajik: луғавӣ (luġavi)
• Ukrainian: лекси́чний (uk) (leksýčnyj)

of a dictionary

• Arabic: قَامُوسِيّ (qāmūsiyy)
• Belarusian: сло́ўнікавы (slóŭnikavy)
• Bulgarian: ре́чников (réčnikov)
• Catalan: lèxic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞典的 / 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)
• Ukrainian: словнико́вий (slovnykóvyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} আভিধানিক (bn) (abhidhanik)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lessicale (it)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} geiriadurol (cy)

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.kal/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. lexical

Derived terms

• classe lexicale
• mot lexical

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From léxico +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lek.siˈkaw/ [lek.siˈkaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɛ.ksiˈkal/ [lɛ.ksiˈkaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɛ.ksiˈkal/ [lɛ.ksiˈkaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɛ.ksiˈka.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais)

1. lexical (concerning the words of a language)

   Synonym: léxico

Derived terms

• lexicalmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lexical. By surface analysis, lexic +‎ -al.

Adjective

lexical m or n (feminine singular lexicală, masculine plural lexicali, feminine and neuter plural lexicale)

1. lexical

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	lexical		lexicală		lexicali	lexicale
	definite	lexicalul		lexicala		lexicalii	lexicalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	lexical		lexicale		lexicali	lexicale
	definite	lexicalului		lexicalei		lexicalilor	lexicalelor

Further reading

• lexical in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɡsiˈkal/ [leɣ̞.siˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: le‧xi‧cal

Adjective

lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)

1. lexical

Further reading

• “lexical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10