different between lexicon vs lexicography

English

Etymology

Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek ??????? (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek ??????? ??????? (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from ??????? (lexikós, “of words”), from ????? (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from ???? (lég?, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to gather, collect”).

Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?k.s?.k?n/
• (US) enPR: l?k's?k?n, IPA^(key): /?l?k.s?.k?n/

Noun

lexicon (plural lexica or lexicons)

1. The vocabulary of a language.

   Synonyms: word-hoard, word-stock

2. (lexicography, linguistics) A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.

   Synonym: wordbook

3. A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
4. (programming) The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
5. (rare) Any dictionary.
6. The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)

   Coordinate term: idiolect

7. A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.

   the baseball lexicon

   1. A list thereof.

      a baseball lexicon

   Synonym: glossary

Related terms

• lexical
• lexicography
• lexicology
• lexiconophilia
• lexiconophilist

Translations

Further reading

• lexicon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lexicon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• lexonic

Dutch

Etymology

From New Latin lexicon, from Ancient Greek ??????? (lexikón, “a lexicon”), neuter of ??????? (lexikós, “of words”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lexi?con

Noun

lexicon n (plural lexicons or lexica, diminutive lexiconnetje n)

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) lexicon

Further reading

• lexicon on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Latin

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek ??????? (lexikón, “a lexicon”), which is an ellipsis from Ancient Greek ??????? ??????? (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from ??????? (lexikós, “of words”), from ????? (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from ???? (lég?, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to gather, collect”).

Attested at least since Girolamo Aleandro's Lexicon graeco-latinum, multis et praeclaris additionibus locupletatum (1512).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lek.si.kon/, [????ks??k?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lek.si.kon/, [?l??zik?n]

Noun

lexicon n (genitive lexic?); second declension

1. (New Latin) a dictionary, a lexicon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Descendants

• ? Dutch: lexicon m
• ? German: Lexikon, Lexicon
  • ? Czech: lexikon
  • ? Hungarian: lexikon (“encyclopedia”)
  • ? Swedish: lexikon
• ? Middle French: lexicon m
  • French: lexique m
  • ? English: lexicon (possibly; or directly from Latin)

References

• lexicon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lexicon in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) +? -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/, /-s?-/
• Hyphenation: lex?i?co?gra?phy

Noun

lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

1. (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
3. (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• lexicography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia