Lemman vs Lemma - What's the difference?
lemman | lemma |
A lover, sweetheart, especially a secret lover or mistress.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VI:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
(mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
(linguistics, usually) The canonical form of an inflected word; ie the form usually found in dictionaries.
(linguistics, less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.
(botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
As nouns the difference between lemman and lemma
is that lemman is while lemma is lemma (mathematics: proposition used mainly in the proof of some other proposition).lemman
English
Noun
(en noun)- He wente that his lemman had layne in that bed, and so he leyde hym adowne by Sir Launcelot and toke hym in his armys and began to kysse hym.
- Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring / Her, whom he waking euermore did weene, / To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring / On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king, / Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound [...].
- The prisoner I speak of is better booty — a jolly monk riding to visit his leman , an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.