lexis

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, speech, word).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 249:
      Thus, alongside current lexis, words and senses now obsolete find a place in a dictionary on historical principles.
  2. (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
    • 2014, Paul Lindsay, Teaching English Worldwide, page 346:
      By the 1980s, English language teachers generally had begun to realize that there had been a neglect of lexis in teaching methods and coursebooks. [] The basic truth that without vocabulary or lexis we can't express anything had to be restated and a new approach to teaching lexis was needed.
  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.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lexis f (irregular, genitive lexeōs); third declension

  1. a word

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lexis
Genitive lexeōs
Dative
Accusative lexīs
lexeis
Ablative
Vocative

Note: The plural form is also spelled λέξεις (léxeis).

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Further reading

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  • 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