lemma

• (UK, US) enPR: lĕm'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmə/
• Rhymes: -ɛmə

From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).

lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata)

1. (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
2. (linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lemma.
3. (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

• (linguistics, lexicography: canonical form of a word): citation form

• (linguistics, lexicography: canonical form of a word): non-lemma

• basic form
• canonical form
• citation form
• dictionary form
• headword

From the Ancient Greek λέμμα (lémma), from λέπω (lépō, “I peel”).

lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata)

1. (botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
2. (botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

• neurolemma

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• melam

Ultimately from Ancient Greek.

lemma n

1. (mathematics) lemma
2. (linguistics) lemma (canonical form of a term)

• lemmatický
• lemmatizace
• lemmatizátor
• lemmatizovat
• dilema
• trilema

• lemma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lemma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin lemma, from Ancient Greek λῆμμᾰ (lêmma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.maː/

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• Hyphenation: lem‧ma
• Rhymes: -ɛmaː

lemma n (plural lemma's or lemmata, diminutive [please provide])

1. (mathematics) lemma (proved or accepted proposition used in a proof)
2. (linguistics) lemma (canonical form of a term, dictionary form)

• hoofdlemma
• sublemma

< Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlemːɑ/, [ˈle̞mːɑ]
• Hyphenation: lem‧ma

lemma

1. (linguistics) lemma
2. (mathematics) lemma

• (linguistics): perusmuoto
• (math): apulause

From the Latin lemma, from the Ancient Greek λῆμμᾰ (lêmma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmːa/
• Hyphenation: lem‧ma

lemma m (plural lemmi)

1. (mathematics, linguistics, lexicography) lemma
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lemma.
2. entry (in a dictionary)

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “lemma”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

• “lemma” in Il Sabatini Coletti: Dizionario della Lingua Italiana (© 2011)
• “lèmma¹” in Vocabolario Treccani on line

• melma

From the Ancient Greek λῆμμᾰ (lêmma).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlem.ma/, [ˈɫɛm.ma]

lemma n (genitive lemmatis); third declension

1. (literally) a subject for consideration or explanation, a theme, matter, subject, contents
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Younger to this entry?)
2. (transferred senses):
   1. the title of an epigram (because it indicates the subject)
   2. the epigram itself
   3. a story, tale
   4. the assumption or lemma of a syllogism
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Gellius to this entry?)

Third declension neuter.

• nūtrīcis lemmata

• Dutch: lemma
• English: lemma
• French: lemme
• German: Lemma
• Italian: lemma
• Spanish: lema

• lemma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lemma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 898/2
• “lemma” on page 1,015/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Probably a scribal error: ni → m.

lemma f

1. medieval spelling of lemnia [8th C.]

• lemma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lemma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛm.ma/

lemma f

1. (linguistics) lemma

• lemma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

lemma n

1. a lemma[1] (the canonical, not inflected form of a word, a headword in a dictionary)
2. (mathematics) a lemma (a proposition)

• uppslagsord

• lemmabestånd
• lemmalakun
• lemmalista
• lemmaordbok
• lemmaselektion
• lemmatecken
• lemmatisera
• lemmatiserad
• lemmatisering
• lemmatisk

• lemma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)