lexicographer

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
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• General-American: /ˌlɛksɪˈkɑɡɹəfɚ/
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• Australian: /ˌleksɪˈkɔɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
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• New-Zealand: [ˌleksəˈkɔ̟ɡɹəfə(ɹ)]
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH2 K S IH0 K AA1 G R AH0 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French lexicographe + -er, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -grapher.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: բառարանագիր (baṙaranagir) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Asturian: lexicógrafu — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Asturian: lexicógrafa — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Azerbaijani: lüğətçi — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Belarusian: лексіко́граф (ljeksikóhraf) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Catalan: lexicògraf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Catalan: lexicògrafa — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞典編纂者 /词典编纂者 (cídiǎn biānzuǎn zhě) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Czech: lexikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Czech: slovníkář — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Danish: leksikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Dutch: lexicograaf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Estonian: leksikograaf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Finnish: sanakirjantekijä — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Finnish: sanakirjantoimittaja — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• French: lexicographe — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Galician: dicionarista — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• German: Lexikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• German: Lexikografin — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Greek: λεξικογράφος (lexikográfos) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Hindi: कोशकार (kośkār) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Hungarian: szótáríró — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Indonesian: leksikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Indonesian: pekamus — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Indonesian: penyusun kamus — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Irish: foclóirí — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Italian: lessicografo — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Italian: lessicografa — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Japanese: 辞書編集者 (jisho henshūsha) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Kazakh: сөздікші (sözdıkşı) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Korean: 사전 편찬자 (sajeon pyeonchanja) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Kyrgyz: сөздүкчү (sözdükcü) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Latvian: leksikogrāfs — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Latvian: leksikogrāfe — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Lithuanian: leksikografas — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Lithuanian: žodýnininkas — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Lithuanian: žodýnininkė — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Malay: pekamus — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Malay: penyusun kamus — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Norwegian Bokmål: leksikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Norwegian Nynorsk: leksikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Polish: leksykograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Portuguese: lexicógrafo — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Portuguese: dicionarista — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Punjabi: ਕੋਸ਼ਕਾਰ (kośkār) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Romanian: lexicograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Romanian: lexicografă — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Russian: лексико́граф (leksikógraf) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Russian: слова́рник (slovárnik) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Scottish Gaelic: faclairiche — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Scottish Gaelic: facladair — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Serbo-Croatian: leksikògraf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Spanish: lexicógrafo — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Spanish: lexicógrafa — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Swahili: mwanaleksikografia — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Swedish: lexikograf — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Tagalog: leksikograpo — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Turkish: sözlükçü — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Ukrainian: лексико́граф (leksykóhraf) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Ukrainian: словника́р (slovnykár) — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Uzbek: lugʻatchi — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Volapük: vödabukilautan — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Volapük: vödabukihilautan — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Volapük: vödabukijilautan — one who writes or compiles a dictionary
• Welsh: geiriadurwr — one who writes or compiles a dictionary