English
lex
Clipping of lexical (analysis).
Another origin of lex
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*legʰ-‘to lie’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lḗgʰsuncertain
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lēks‘law’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElēx‘law(s)’
- Englishtodaylex
Today it means
verb To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / lex