Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lemmatize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lem-ma-tize
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

Etymology

Etymology tree English lemmat(ic) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English lemmatize From lemmat(ic) + -ize.

Inflected Forms

lemmatizes (present, singular) lemmatizing (participle, present) lemmatized (participle, past) lemmatized (past) lemmatise (alternative)

Derived Forms

lemmatization lemmatizer unlemmatized

Questions

What does lemmatize mean?: To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.
Where does lemmatize come from?: Etymology tree English lemmat(ic) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English lemmatize From lemmat(ic) + -ize.

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