English Explanatory Dictionary

lemma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  2. A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
noun
  1. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
  2. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
name
  1. A female given name.

Pronunciation

lĕm'ə /ˈlɛmə/ /ˈlɪmə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lemma.wav

Word forms

lemma lemmas lemmata

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

Synonyms

citation form lexeme

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 cytolemma karyolemma myolemma neurilemma neurolemma oolemma plasmalemma sarcolemma

Translations

Arabic: تَمْهِيدِيَّة Armenian: լեմմա Bengali: লেমা Bulgarian: ле́ма Catalan: lema Chinese Mandarin: 引理 Czech: lemma Danish: lemma Danish: hjælpesætning Dutch: lemma Esperanto: lemo Faroese: hjálparsetningur Finnish: apulause Finnish: lemma French: lemme German: Lemma German: Hilfssatz Greek: λήμμα Hebrew: למה Hebrew: טענת עזר Hindi: प्रमेयिका Hungarian: lemma Hungarian: segédtétel Hungarian: kiegészítő tétel Icelandic: hjálparsetning Italian: lemma Japanese: 補題 Korean: 보조정리 Macedonian: лема Norwegian Bokmål: lemma Norwegian Nynorsk: lemma Polish: lemat Portuguese: lema Romanian: lemă Russian: ле́мма Slovak: lema Spanish: lema Swedish: lemma
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