Main Entry: en·cy·clo·pe·dia
Etymology: Medieval Latin encyclopaedia course of general education, from Greek enkyklios + paideia education, child rearing, from paid-, pais child – more at FEW Date: 1644 : a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject
Main Entry: lex·i·con
Inflected Form(s): plural lex·i·ca /-k&/; or lexicons Etymology: Late Greek lexikon, from neuter of lexikos of words, from Greek lexis word, speech, from legein to say – more at LEGEND Date: 1603 1 : a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : DICTIONARY 2 a : the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject b : the total stock of morphemes in a language 3 : REPERTOIRE, INVENTORY
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