Definitions
the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
Word origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Used in a sentence
“"We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," he [Dr. John Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."”
“Cat is a lemma, but cats is not.”
“Holonym: lexeme (holonymous sense)”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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