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lemmatise

lemmatise is the alternative spelling of lemmatize.

Meaning of lemmatize

Verb

lemmatize (third-person singular simple present lemmatizes, present participle lemmatizing, simple past and past participle lemmatized)

  1. To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

Forms of lemmatise

third-person singular presentlemmatises
present participlelemmatising
past participlelemmatised
pastlemmatised

Origin of lemmatise

From lemmat(ic) + -ise.

Words formed from lemmatise

Questions about lemmatise

What is lemmatise the alternative spelling of?
Lemmatise is the alternative spelling of lemmatize.

Words near lemmatise in the dictionary

  1. lemmatic
  2. lemmatical
  3. lemmatically
  4. lemmatisation
  5. lemmatisations
  6. lemmatise
  7. lemmatised
  8. lemmatiser
  9. lemmatisers
  10. lemmatises
  11. lemmatising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lemmatise (page history and authors); lemmatize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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