English-Portuguese translations for lexicon

• léxico
  Poderá parecer que os transportadores britânicos estão simplesmente a perder mercado como resultado da concorrência, a palavra preferida do léxico da UE. It might appear that British hauliers are simply losing business as the result of competition, a favourite word in the EU lexicon.
  Por conseguinte, todas as comunicações são interceptadas e, em seguida, sistematicamente analisadas por computadores extremamente potentes e classificadas com base num léxico de palavras­chave. Consequently, all communications are intercepted and then analysed by super-computers and classified on the basis of a lexicon of key words.
• vocabulário
  Todo este vocabulário tem um carácter autoritário, e ainda bem que não me cabe o papel do negociador que, supostamente, se deverá orientar por estas recomendações. This is a lexicon of dictation and I am very pleased not to have the role of the negotiator who is supposed to be guided by such recommendations.
• léxicon

Definition of lexicon

• The vocabulary of a language
• A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes
• A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic
• Any dictionary
• A vocabulary specific to a certain subject

Examples

• a baseball lexicon

Related words

• lexicography
• lexicology
• lexicostatistics
• lexicographer
• lexicographically
• lexicographic
• lexicological
• lexicologically
• lexicologist