lexical

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĕ'ksĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ˈleksɪkəl/

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 137:

     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

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.kal/

Adjective

lexical (feminine singular lexicale, masculine plural lexicaux, feminine plural lexicales)

1. lexical

External links

• “lexical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Adjective

lexical m, f (plural lexicais, comparable)

1. Synonym of léxico

Adjective

lexical (plural lexicales)

1. lexical