lemma

名词 n.
/ˈlɛmə/    /ˈlɛmə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
    — "We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," he [Dr. John Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."
  2. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
  3. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.; A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result. broadly
  4. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
  5. 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.
    — Cat is a lemma, but cats is not.
  6. 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.

词形变化

lemmas plural lemmata plural lemmas plural lemmata plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
词源 2
From the Ancient Greek λέμμα (lémma), from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”).
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