The story
- Latin · derived from-ālis
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλέξις“saying, speech; phrase, word”
- English todaylectical
From lectic + -al, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “saying, speech; phrase, word”) + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλέξις all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.