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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 terminus (“a term”) + -ology (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logy, from Ancient Greek -????? (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??m??n?l?d??i/

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?m??n?l?d??i/

Noun

terminology (countable and uncountable, plural terminologies)

1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
2. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.

Synonyms

• nomenclature, vocabulary, language, wording, phraseology, jargon, lingo, -ese

Coordinate terms

• glossary

Derived terms

• terminological
• terminologically
• terminologist

Related terms

• argot
• jargon
• terminism
• terminist

Translations

Further reading

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

Scots

Etymology

From English terminology.

Noun

terminology (plural terminologies)

1. terminology