Lemma (from Ancient Greek ''premise'', ''assumption'', from Greek ''I take'', ''I get'') may refer to:
Language and linguistics
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Lemma (morphology)
In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. In English, for example, ''break'', ''breaks'', ''broke'', ''broken'' and ''breaking'' are forms of th ...
, the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word
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Lemma (psycholinguistics)
In psychology, a lemma (: lemmas or lemmata) is an abstract conceptual form of a word that has been mentally selected prior to the early stages of speech production. This concept is used to explain how the process of generating speech occurs. In ...
, a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered
Science and mathematics
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Lemma (botany), a part of a grass plant
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Lemma (mathematics)
In mathematics and other fields, a lemma (: lemmas or lemmata) is a generally minor, proven Theorem#Terminology, proposition which is used to prove a larger statement. For that reason, it is also known as a "helping theorem" or an "auxiliary theo ...
, a proven proposition used as a step in a larger proof
Other uses
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''Lemma'' (album), by John Zorn (2013)
See also
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Analemma, a diagram showing the variation of the position of the Sun in the sky
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Dilemma
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Lema (disambiguation)
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Lemmatisation
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Neurolemma
Neurilemma (also known as neurolemma, sheath of Schwann, or Schwann's sheath) is the outermost cell nucleus, nucleated cytoplasmic layer of Schwann cells (also called neurilemmocytes) that surrounds the axon of the neuron. It forms the outermost la ...
, part of a neuron
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