lexis

Meanings

1. The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
2. Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
3. The vocabulary used by a writer.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs)lbor. English lexis Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech, word”).