lemmatize

transitive verb

lem·​ma·​tize

ˈleməˌtīz,

-ətˌīz

-ed/-ing/-s

: to sort (words in a corpus) in order to group with a lemma all its variant and inflected forms

lemmatization

ˌlemətə̇ˈzāshən

-ə‧ˌtīˈz-

noun

plural -s

Word History

Etymology

New Latin lemmat-, lemma lemma + English -ize

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