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Polish

Noun

toyota f

1. a Toyota car

Declension

Further reading

• toyota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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