Lexisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech, word”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɛksɪs/
• 韻: -ɛksəs

名詞

lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)

1. (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 249:

     Thus, alongside current lexis, words and senses now obsolete find a place in a dictionary on historical principles.

2. (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
   • 2014, Paul Lindsay, Teaching English Worldwide, page 346:

     By the 1980s, English language teachers generally had begun to realize that there had been a neglect of lexis in teaching methods and coursebooks. […] The basic truth that without vocabulary or lexis we can't express anything had to be restated and a new approach to teaching lexis was needed.

3. The vocabulary used by a writer.

   In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.

等位語

• lexicon

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• Silex, silex, sixel

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫɛk.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛk.sis]

名詞

lexis f (genitive lexis or lexeōs or lexios); third declension

1. a word

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

同意語

• dictiō
• verbum

Further reading

• “lexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lexis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lexis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin