The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλεξικός“of words”
- English todaylexicology
From Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγειν (légein, “to speak”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -logy.
Words from the same roots
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