In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LEXICOLOGY
lexicology
(noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lexicology (countable and uncountable, plural lexicologies)
(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
Source: Wiktionary
Lex`i*col"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. lexicologie.]
Definition: The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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