different between lexis vs lexical

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from ???- (leg-, “to speak”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks?s
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?k?s?s, IPA^(key): /?l?ks?s/,

Noun

lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)

1. (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
2. (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
3. The vocabulary used by a writer

   In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.

Derived terms

• lexiplacy, lexoplacy (word-coining, word-creation)

References

Anagrams

• Silex, silex

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (léxis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lek.sis/, [????ks??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lek.sis/, [?l??zis]

Noun

lexis f (irregular, genitive lexe?s); third declension

1. A word.

Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular, Greek-type).

Synonyms

• n?men, verbum

References

• 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

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

Related terms

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