noun
- plural form of lexicon; vocabularies or dictionaries of languages or specialized fields
Usage: formal; academic
Examples
- The researchers compared lexica from different Indo-European languages.
- Medical lexica contain thousands of specialized terms.
- Ancient lexica provide insight into historical language use.
- Digital lexica have revolutionized linguistic research.
- The professor studied lexica of various African languages.
- Computational linguists work with electronic lexica for natural language processing.