different between lex vs xan

English

Etymology

From lexical analysis, from lexical.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophones: Lex, leks

Verb

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

1. (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

Derived terms

• lexer

See also

• lex (software) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

lex (plural lexes)

1. (linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.

Latin

Etymology

• From Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s, root nomen actionis from *le?- (“to gather”), whence leg?.
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-s, root nomen actionis from *leg?- (“to lie, to be in resting position”). Compare with the semantics of English law from this root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /le?ks/, [??e?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leks/, [l?ks]

Noun

l?x f (genitive l?gis); third declension

1. a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
2. (figuratively) a bill which has become a law, a law
   • a. 43 BC, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (printed in translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)

     Lex universa est quae iubet nasci et mori.

     The universal law is that which ordains that we are to be born and to die.

     dura lex, sed lex.

     The law is tough but it is the law.

3. (figuratively) a precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner
4. (figuratively) a contract, agreement, covenant
5. (figuratively) a condition, stipulation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ?? Albanian: ligj
• Aromanian: leadzi
• Asturian: llei
• Basque: lege
• Esperanto: le?o
• Friulian: leç
• Galician: lei
• Italian: legge
• Ladin: lege
• Old Occitan: ley
  • Occitan: lei
  • Catalan: llei
• Old French: lei
  • Middle French: loy
    • French: loi
      • ? Haitian Creole: lalwa
      • ? Moore: laloa
  • Norman: louai
• Piedmontese: lege
• Portuguese: lei
• Romanian: lege
• Sicilian: liggi
• Spanish: ley
• Venetian: lexe
• Walloon: lwè

See also

References

• lex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• lex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

lex

1. Alternative form of lax (“salmon”)

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

lex (definite form lex bi)

1. cheek (part of the face)

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *qa?an.

Noun

xan (definite accusative xan?, plural xanlar)

1. khan

Declension

Derived terms

• xanl?q (“khanate”)
• Xank?ndi

Bipi

Noun

xan

1. water, fresh water

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Galician

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

xan m (plural xans)

1. a man who lets himself be controlled by anyone else; a weakling
   • 1996, Xosé Cid Cabido, Unha liña no ceo: 58 narradores galegos, 1979-1996, Xerais de Galicia, page 270:

     —Xa ti mesma o dis: un xan, un xanciño.

     —You say it yourself: a weakling, a little weakling.

Derived terms

• xanciño

References

Yámana

Pronoun

xan

1. we