lemma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
mathematics
psycholinguistics
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Inflected forms:
form: lemmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lemmata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
pos: noun
examples: "We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," he [Dr. John Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."
gloss: A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Cat is a lemma, but cats is not.
Holonym: lexeme (holonymous sense)
For the second sense, where "word" means "item that should have its own dictionary entry," lexicographers sometimes use the term "lemma," but that has other meanings too, so among linguists the term lexeme is now standard, and I'll use it. For the different forms or shapes that belong to a lexeme we can use the term word-form.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lemma.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Synonyms: citation form
Antonyms: non-lemma
Related words: dilemma
lemmatic
lemmatical
lemmatically
Margulis lemma
pentalemma
sublemma
tetralemma
trilemma
basic form
canonical form
citation form
dictionary form
headword
infinitive
Derived words: Bézout's lemma
Euclid's lemma
five lemma
Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma
lemmatize
Neyman-Pearson lemma
pentalemma
pumping lemma
Riemann-Lebesgue lemma
Sperner's lemma
Stein's lemma
Teichmüller-Tukey lemma
Tukey's lemma
Urysohn's lemma
Yao's lemma
Yoneda lemma
Zorn's lemma
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَمْهِيدِيَّة
roman: tamhīdiyya
lang: Armenian
word: լեմմա
roman: lemma
lang: Bengali
word: লেমা
roman: lema
lang: Bulgarian
word: ле́ма
roman: léma
lang: Catalan
word: lema
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 引理
roman: yǐnlǐ
lang: Czech
word: lemma
lang: Danish
word: lemma
lang: Danish
word: hjælpesætning
lang: Dutch
word: lemma
lang: Esperanto
word: lemo
lang: Faroese
word: hjálparsetningur
lang: Finnish
word: apulause
lang: Finnish
word: lemma
lang: French
word: lemme
lang: German
word: Lemma
lang: German
word: Hilfssatz
lang: Greek
word: λήμμα
roman: límma
lang: Hebrew
word: למה
roman: léma
lang: Hebrew
word: טענת עזר
roman: te'anát ézer
lang: Hindi
word: प्रमेयिका
roman: prameyikā
lang: Hungarian
word: lemma
lang: Hungarian
word: segédtétel
lang: Hungarian
word: kiegészítő tétel
lang: Icelandic
word: hjálparsetning
lang: Italian
word: lemma
lang: Japanese
word: 補題
roman: hodai
lang: Korean
word: 보조정리
roman: bojojeongni
lang: Macedonian
word: лема
roman: lema
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lemma
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lemma
lang: Polish
word: lemat
lang: Portuguese
word: lema
lang: Romanian
word: lemă
lang: Russian
word: ле́мма
roman: lémma
lang: Slovak
word: lema
lang: Spanish
word: lema
lang: Swedish
word: lemma