lexicography

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfi/
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• General-American: /ˌlɛksɪˈkɑɡɹəfi/
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• General-American: /-sə-/
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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) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek λεξῐκός (lexĭkós) English lexico- Proto-Indo-European *gerbh- Proto-Hellenic *grə́phō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English lexicography From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) + -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: բառարանագրություն (baṙaranagrutʻyun) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Asturian: lexicografía — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Azerbaijani: lüğətçilik — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Belarusian: лексікагра́фія (ljeksikahráfija) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Bulgarian: лексикогра́фия (leksikográfija) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Catalan: lexicografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Chinese Cantonese: 詞典學 /词典学 (ci4 din2 hok6) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞典學 /词典学 (cídiǎnxué) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Chinese Mandarin: 辭書學 /辞书学 (císhūxué) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞典編輯 /词典编辑 (cídiǎn biānjí) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Czech: lexikografie — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Czech: slovníkářství — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Danish: leksikografi — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Dutch: lexicografie — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Esperanto: leksikografio — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Estonian: leksikograafia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Finnish: leksikografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• French: lexicographie — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Galician: lexicografía — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• German: Lexikographie — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Greek: λεξικογραφία (lexikografía) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Greek: λεξικογράφηση (lexikográfisi) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Hindi: कोशकर्म (kośkarm) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Hungarian: lexikográfia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Hungarian: szótárírás — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Icelandic: orðabókargerð — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Icelandic: orðabókagerð — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Ido: lexikografio — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Interlingua: lexicographia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Irish: foclóireacht — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Italian: lessicografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Japanese: 辞書編集 (jisho henshū) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Japanese: 辞書学 (jishogaku) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Kazakh: лексикография (leksikografiä) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Kazakh: сөздікжасам (sözdıkjasam) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Khmer: វចនលេខន៍ (vaj ja nak lek) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Korean: 사전학 (sajeonhak) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Kyrgyz: лексикография (leksikografiya) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Latin: lexica condere — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Latvian: leksikogrāfija — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Lithuanian: leksikografija — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Macedonian: лексикогра́фија (leksikográfija) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Macedonian: речни́карство (rečníkarstvo) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Malay: perkamusan — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Malay: leksikografi — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Norwegian: leksikografi — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Persian: فرهنگنویسی (farhang-nevisi) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Polish: leksykografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Polish: słownikarstwo — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Portuguese: lexicografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Punjabi: ਕੋਸ਼ਕਾਰੀ (kośkārī) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Romanian: lexicografie — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Russian: лексикогра́фия (leksikográfija) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Scottish Gaelic: faclaireachd — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Serbo-Croatian: лексикогра̀фија — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Serbo-Croatian: leksikogràfija — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Spanish: lexicografía — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Swahili: leksikografia — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Swedish: lexikografi — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Tagalog: leksikograpiya — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Tamil: பேரகரமுதலி (pērakaramutali) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Turkish: sözlükbilim — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Turkish: sözlükçülük — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Turkish: leksikografi — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Ukrainian: лексикогра́фія (leksykohráfija) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Ukrainian: словника́рство (slovnykárstvo) — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Uzbek: lugʻatchilik — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Vietnamese: từ điển học — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Welsh: geiriadureg — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Welsh: geiriaduraeth — art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries
• Bulgarian: лексикогра́фия (leksikográfija) — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Hindi: कोशकर्म (kośkarm) — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Icelandic: orðabókafræði — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Icelandic: orðabókarfræði — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Macedonian: лексикогра́фија (leksikográfija) — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Serbo-Croatian: лексикогра̀фија — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Serbo-Croatian: leksikogràfija — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
• Swedish: lexikografi — scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures