# lexical
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* enPR: lĕ'ksĭkəl, IPA: /ˈlɛksɪkəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

lexical (not comparable)
* (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).
* (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
* (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
    a lexical verb
* (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
    Synonyms: lexicographic, lexicographical

#### Synonyms

* lexic

#### Derived terms

* alexical
* bilexical
* delexical
* extralexical
* grammaticolexical
* interlexical
* intralexical
* lexical analysis
* lexical analyzer
* lexical aspect
* lexical bundle
* lexical category
* lexical choice
* lexical correspondence
* lexical definition
* lexical density
* lexical gap
* lexical innovation
* lexicalism
* lexicalist
* lexical item
* lexicality
* lexicalize
* lexically
* lexical middle voice
* lexical resource
* lexical scope
* lexical scoping
* lexical semantics
* lexical set
* lexical simplification
* lexical substitution
* lexical unit
* lexical verb
* lexical word
* lexicase
* monolexical
* morpholexical
* nonlexical
* non-lexical
* panlexicalist
* paralexical
* polylexical
* postlexical
* prelexical
* pseudolexical
* psycholexical
* sublexical
* supralexical
* unlexical

#### Related terms

* lexeme
* lexicalisation, lexicalization
* lexicon
* lexis

#### Translations

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## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛk.si.kal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

#### Derived terms

* classe lexicale
* mot lexical

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From léxico +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /lek.siˈkaw/ [lek.siˈkaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɛ.ksiˈkal/ [lɛ.ksiˈkaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɛ.ksiˈkal/ [lɛ.ksiˈkaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /lɛ.ksiˈka.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: le‧xi‧cal

### Adjective

lexical m or f (plural lexicais)
* lexical (concerning the words of a language)
    Synonym: léxico

#### Derived terms

* lexicalmente

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Adjective

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

#### Declension
### Further reading

* lexical in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leɡsiˈkal/ [leɣ̞.siˈkal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: le‧xi‧cal

### Adjective

lexical m or f (masculine and feminine plural lexicales)
* lexical

### Further reading

* “lexical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10