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lex en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • lĕks
  • /lɛks/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leks/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /lɛks/

Etymology

Clipping of lexical (analysis).

Meanings

  1. A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.

Forms

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lexes Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “lex” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

lex en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • lĕks
  • /lɛks/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leks/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /lɛks/

Etymology

Clipping of lexical (analysis).

Meanings

  1. To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
    • Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques. 1994, Donna K. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2):
    • Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats... 2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#:
    • SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree. 2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis:

Forms

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lexed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lexed Tense=Past lexicographic
lexes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lexing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

lexer

Source: en.wiktionary, “lex” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

lex en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • lĕks
  • /lɛks/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leks/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /lɛks/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *lḗǵs? Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *lḗgʰs? Proto-Italic *lēks Latin lēx, lēgeslbor. English lex Learned borrowing from Latin lēx, lēges (“law(s)”).

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) A Roman or Latin law (particularly in ancient Rome or in medieval Europe).
    • The 19th and 20th lines of the lex on the tablet (which decree the repeal of the rectigalia) seem to be conclusive in favour of this and against Rudorff's earlier theory. 1891, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 55:
    • Sanctuary arrangements show strong parallels to other regulations in the leges concerning feud and the prosecution of theft. 2018 October 18, Paul R. Hyams, Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 96:

Forms

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leges Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

lex dubia non obligat · lex talionis · de minimis non curat lex · lex lata