lemma

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It includes corrections by original and by later hands When no manuscripts are specified for the lemma in an entry, the lemma is the reading for those manuscripts not otherwise specified.

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  1. noun A subsidiary proposition assumed to be valid and used to demonstrate a principal proposition.
  2. noun A theme, argument, or subject indicated in a title.
  3. noun A word or phrase treated in a glossary or similar listing.
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  • (A lemma is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopedia entries appears.) —  Latest headlines from JavaWorld
  • It is argued that it is not necessary to postulate a modality-neutral level of lexical representation (lemma) that is intermediate between lexical-semantic representations and modality-specific lexical representations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We formally develop category theory up to Yoneda's lemma, using Isabelle / HOL / Isar, and survey previous formalisations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Michael Leupold (lemma): The art of bug triage, KMail bugday on sunday (+ hello planet) —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • By Zorn's lemma, there must exist a maximal orthonormal system. —  What's new
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin lēmma, from Greek, from lambanein, to take.
  2. Greek, husk, from lepein, to peel.

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  1. = French lemme = Spanish Portuguese lema = Italian lemma, from Latin lemma, a theme, from Greek λῆμμα, anything received or taken, a thing taken for granted, from λαμβάνειν, 2d aorist λαβεῖν, take, = Sanskrit √ rabh, take. Cf. labis, etc. Hence dilemma, trilemma.
 

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