English word lemma comes from English tri- (Three.), Ancient Greek λαμβάνω

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Detailed word origin of lemma

Dictionary entry	Language	Definition
tri-	English (eng)	Three.
λαμβάνω	Ancient Greek (grc)
tetralemma	English (eng)	A figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.
λῆμμα	Ancient Greek (grc)
lemma	English (eng)	(linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found in dictionaries.. (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.. (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds [...]

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