lexikographisch

Lexikographisch is an adjective in German that describes anything related to lexikography, the scholarly discipline concerned with dictionaries and lexical resources. In practice, it covers the methods, criteria, and results involved in compiling and presenting lexical data, including the selection of headwords, the inventory and labeling of meanings, pronunciation, etymology, usage examples, and cross-references within a dictionary.

Etymology and usage: The term derives from Lexikon (dictionary) and the Greek-derived suffix -grafie, forming the sense “pertaining to the writing of words.” In English, the cognate term is lexicographic or lexicographical.

Applications extend from traditional print to digital and computational lexicography. Lexikographisch oriented work informs editorial standards, data modeling, and user-oriented design, such as sense disambiguation, lemma selection, and cross-linguistic equivalences. It intersects with linguistics, information science, and language technology, especially in corpus-based and semi-automatic dictionary construction.

Related topics include lexicography, dictionaries, lemmas, lexemes, and lexical semantics.