You can make 4 words from lex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of lex
lex elx lxe xle exl xel
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lex. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lex.
Definitions and meaning of lex
lex
Etymology
From lexical analysis, from lexical.
Pronunciation
(UK, US) IPA(key): /lɛks/
Rhymes: -ɛks
Homophones: Lex, leks
Verb
lex (third-person singular simple presentlexes, present participlelexing, simple past and past participlelexed)
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
Derived terms
lexer
See also
lex (software) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
lex (plurallexes)
(linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.
See also
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic*lēks. The usual etymology derives the term from Proto-Indo-European*lēǵ-s, a root nomen actionis from *leǵ-(“to gather”), whence also legō.
Palmer (1906) proposes an alternative origin in Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-s, root nomen actionis from *legʰ-(“to lie, to be in resting position”). Compare with the semantics of English law from this root.
a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
(figurative) a bill which has become a law, a law, a statute
a. 43 BC, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (printed in translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)
Lex universa est quae iubet nasci et mori.
The universal law is that which ordains that we are to be born and to die.
dura lex, sed lex.
The law is tough but it is the law.
(figurative) a precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner
(figurative) a contract, agreement, covenant
(figurative) a condition, stipulation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
→? Albanian: ligj
Aromanian: leadzi
Basque: lege
Friulian: leç
Galician: lei
→ German: lege artis
Italian: legge
→ Esperanto: leĝo
Ladin: lege
Old Leonese: lee, llei
Asturian: llei
Lombard: leg
Piedmontese: lèj
Old Occitan: ley
Occitan: lei
Catalan: llei
Old French: lei
Middle French: loy
French: loi
⇒ Haitian Creole: lalwa
→ Moore: laloa
Norman: louai
Piedmontese: lege
Portuguese: lei
Romanian: lege
Sicilian: liggi
Old Spanish: ley
Spanish: ley
Venetian: lexe
Walloon: lwè
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References
Further reading
“lex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
lex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
“lex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“lex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
Noun
lex
Alternative form of lax(“salmon”)
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinlex(“law”), attested since 1842.
Noun
lexc
(law)Used before a given name to form names, often informal, for certain laws.
Usage notes
The given name that sometimes follow lex is often from the entity (person, animal, organisation) which gave reason to the need of that specific law.
The structure involving lex can be compared with those involving the English terms act and in re, for example in re Gault. Note, however, that these legal terms may carry a different meaning.