lexicon

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν ("a lexicon, a dictionary"), ellipsis from Ancient Greek, from λεξικός, from λέξις, from λέγειν, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ("to gather, collect").
  • Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.

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