Etymology

lex

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Today it means: To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing. Full definition →

Latin lēx, lēge ← Proto-Italic *lēks ← Proto-Indo-European *lḗgʰs?
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lex · verb, noun1

Clipping of lexical (analysis).

lex · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lḗǵs?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*lḗgʰs?
  5. Proto-Italic*lēks
  6. Latinlēx, lēge
  7. English todaylex

Learned borrowing from Latin lēx, lēges (“law(s)”).

Words from the same roots

Latinlēx all →

legitimatelegificlegistlex talionis

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