lemmatize

American  

[lem-uh-tahyz] / ˈlɛm əˌtaɪz /

especially British, lemmatise

verb (used with object)

lemmatized, lemmatizing

1. to sort (the words in a list or text) in order to determine the headword, under which other words are then listed.

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lemmatize British  

/ ˈlɛməˌtaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) linguistics to group together the inflected forms of (a word) for analysis as a single item

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Other Word Forms

• lemmatization noun

Etymology

Origin of lemmatize

1965–70; < Greek lēmmat- (stem of lêmma; lemma ¹ ) + -ize