LEXICOGRAPHY

lexicography

(noun) the act of writing dictionaries

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

(uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

(countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

Source: Wiktionary


Lex`i*cog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lexicographie.]

Definition: The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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