The document introduces lexicon, lexis, vocabulary, and dictionary as synonymous terms referring to the total stock of words in a language. It notes that the term lexicon comes from the Greek word for word and was originally used to refer to a book listing words and meanings alphabetically, but now also refers abstractly to all meaningful linguistic units of a language, including prefixes, suffixes, words, and idioms.
The document introduces lexicon, lexis, vocabulary, and dictionary as synonymous terms referring to the total stock of words in a language. It notes that the term lexicon comes from the Greek word for word and was originally used to refer to a book listing words and meanings alphabetically, but now also refers abstractly to all meaningful linguistic units of a language, including prefixes, suffixes, words, and idioms.
The document introduces lexicon, lexis, vocabulary, and dictionary as synonymous terms referring to the total stock of words in a language. It notes that the term lexicon comes from the Greek word for word and was originally used to refer to a book listing words and meanings alphabetically, but now also refers abstractly to all meaningful linguistic units of a language, including prefixes, suffixes, words, and idioms.
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