different between metalexicography vs lexicology

English

Etymology

meta- +? lexicography

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

metalexicography (uncountable)

1. (linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography

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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

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See also

• semantics