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Lexicon
The vocabulary of a language, person, or field.
The Greek roots
λέξις
léxis
word, speech
Literally: “a book of words”
Follow a root:λέξις7 words
The story of the word
From légein, 'to speak' — a lexicon is a gathering of words, cousin to dyslexia and lexical.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
‘Selfie’ soon entered the everyday lexicon.