lexical

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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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lexical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences 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

4. (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

   Synonyms: lexicographic, lexicographical

• lexic

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

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.kal/

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

1. lexical

• classe lexicale
• mot lexical

• “lexical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From léxico +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: le‧xi‧cal

lexical m or f (plural lexicais)

1. lexical (concerning the words of a language)

   Synonym: léxico

• lexicalmente

Borrowed from French lexical. By surface analysis, lexic +‎ -al.

lexical m or n (feminine singular lexicală, masculine plural lexicali, feminine and neuter plural lexicale)

1. lexical

• IPA^(key): /leɡsiˈkal/ [leɣ̞.siˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: le‧xi‧cal

lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)

1. lexical

• “lexical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28