lex
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lexical analysis, from lexical.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /lɛks/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛks
- Homophones: Lex, leks
Verb
[edit]lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)
- (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
- 1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2):
- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
- 2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis:
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
- 2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#:
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]lex (software) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
[edit]lex (plural lexes)
- (linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.
See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *lēks. The usual etymology derives the term from Proto-Indo-European *lēǵ-s, a root nomen actionis from *leǵ- (“to gather”), whence also legō.[1][2]
Palmer (1906) proposes an alternative origin in Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-s, root nomen actionis from *legʰ- (“to lie, to be in resting position”). Compare with the semantics of English law from this root.[3] This alternative etymology is endorsed by Fortson.[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /leːks/, [ɫ̪eːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leks/, [lɛks]
Noun
[edit]lēx f (genitive lēgis); third declension
- a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
- (figurative) a bill which has become a law, a law, a statute
- a. 43 BC, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (printed in translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)
- Lex universa est quae iubet nasci et mori.
- dura lex, sed lex.
- The law is tough but it is the law.
- a. 43 BC, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (printed in translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)
- (figurative) a precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner
- (figurative) a contract, agreement, covenant
- (figurative) a condition, stipulation
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lēx | lēgēs |
Genitive | lēgis | lēgum |
Dative | lēgī | lēgibus |
Accusative | lēgem | lēgēs |
Ablative | lēge | lēgibus |
Vocative | lēx | lēgēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- →? Albanian: ligj
- Aromanian: leadzi
- Basque: lege
- Friulian: leç
- Galician: lei
- → German: lege artis
- Italian: legge
- → Esperanto: leĝo
- Ladin: lege
- Old Leonese: lee, llei
- Asturian: llei
- Lombard: leg
- Piedmontese: lèj
- Old Occitan: ley
- Old French: lei
- Piedmontese: lege
- Portuguese: lei
- Romanian: lege
- Sicilian: liggi
- Old Spanish: ley
- Spanish: ley
- Venetian: lexe
- Walloon: lwè
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “legal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber
- ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017) “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter
Further reading
[edit]- “lex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give the state a constitution: rem publicam legibus et institutis temperare (Tusc. 1. 1. 2)
- (a state) has its own laws, is autonomous: suis legibus utitur (B. G. 1. 45. 3)
- a law is adopted: lex perfertur
- the laws of Solon ordained that..: Solonis legibus sanctum erat, ut or ne
- a law is valid: lex rata est (opp. irrita)
- without breaking the law: salvis legibus (vid. sect. X. 7, note Notice...)
- the law orders, forbids (expressly, distinctly): lex iubet, vetat (dilucide, planissime)
- a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
- (ambiguous) a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)
- to free from legal obligations: legibus solvere
- (ambiguous) this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
- (ambiguous) the rules of speech, grammar: leges dicendi
- (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
- (ambiguous) the constitution: instituta et leges
- (ambiguous) to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
- (ambiguous) to bring a bill before the notice of the people: legem, rogationem promulgare (Liv. 33. 46)
- (ambiguous) to propose a law in the popular assembly: legem ferre or simply ferre ad populum, ut...
- (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): legem suadere (opp. dissuadere)
- (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): pro lege dicere
- (ambiguous) to formally propose a law to the people: legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
- (ambiguous) to carry a law (said of the magistrate): legem perferre (Liv. 33. 46)
- (ambiguous) to reject a bill: legem antiquare (opp. accipere, iubere)
- (ambiguous) to vote for a law: legem sciscere (Planc. 14. 35)
- (ambiguous) to ratify a law (used of the people): legem iubere
- (ambiguous) to let a bill become law (of the people and senate): legem sancire
- (ambiguous) Solo ordained by law that..: Solo lege sanxit, ut or ne
- (ambiguous) to replace an old law by a new: legem abrogare (Att. 3. 23. 2)
- (ambiguous) to abolish a law: legem tollere (Leg. 2. 12. 31)
- (ambiguous) to protest against a law (used of the veto, intercessio, of plebeian tribunes): legi intercedere
- (ambiguous) to bring a law before the notice of the people: legem proponere in publicum
- (ambiguous) to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
- (ambiguous) to declare a law valid: legem ratam esse iubere
- (ambiguous) to transgress a law: a lege discedere
- (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est
- (ambiguous) the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
- (ambiguous) to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
- (ambiguous) a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)
- (ambiguous) to swear obedience to a law: in legem iurare (Sest. 16. 37)
- (ambiguous) to be bound by a law: lege teneri
- (ambiguous) on condition of..: ea lege, ut
- (ambiguous) a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
- (ambiguous) to upset the whole constitution: omnes leges confundere
- (ambiguous) lawlessness; anarchy: leges nullae
- (ambiguous) to go to law with a person: (ex) iure, lege agere cum aliquo
- (ambiguous) to be condemned under the Lex Plautia: lege Plautia damnari (Sall. Cat. 31. 4)
- to give the state a constitution: rem publicam legibus et institutis temperare (Tusc. 1. 1. 2)
- “lex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]lex
- Alternative form of lax (“salmon”)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin lex (“law”), attested since 1842.
Noun
[edit]Examples |
---|
lex c
- (law) Used before a given name to form names, often informal, for certain laws.
Usage notes
[edit]- The given name that sometimes follow lex is often from the entity (person, animal, organisation) which gave reason to the need of that specific law.
- The structure involving lex can be compared with those involving the English terms act and in re, for example in re Gault. Note, however, that these legal terms may carry a different meaning.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Wolof
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]lex (definite form lex bi)
- cheek (part of the face)
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɛks
- Rhymes:English/ɛks/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- en:Computing
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Linguistics
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from Latin
- Swedish terms derived from Latin
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Law
- Wolof terms with audio links
- Wolof lemmas
- Wolof nouns
- wo:Anatomy