different between lexical vs lexicology

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?'ks?k?l, IPA^(key): /?l?ks?k?l/

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language

   • 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

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Translations

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k.si.kal/

Adjective

lexical (feminine singular 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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais, comparable)

1. Synonym of léxico

Romanian

Etymology

From French lexical

Adjective

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

1. lexical

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

lexical (plural lexicales)

1. lexical

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (lexikós, “of words”), from ????? (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from ?????? (légein, “to speak”); synchronically, lexico- +? -logy.

Noun

lexicology (countable and uncountable, plural lexicologies)

1. (uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
   • 1949 Journal of Theological Studies

     The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.

2. (countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.

Derived terms

• lexicological
• lexicologically
• lexicologist

Related terms

• lexical
• lexicography
• lexicon

Translations

See also

• semantics