lemma

Other forms of lemma

plural

lemmata

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lemma

What does lemma mean?

lemma means "a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lemma?

lemma has 2 syllables: lem-ma. The stress falls on "lem". In IPA it is /ˈlɛmə/.

What is another word for lemma?

Close synonyms include flowering glume. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lemma a common word?

lemma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lemma?

1 word rhymes with lemma. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.