Terminology question

[Lex]

Let's say that I'm trying to write a Greek/English flash card program using Visual Basic and an Access database. And let's say that in this program, I intend to group words in the database together in a fashion that makes a modicum of sense. For example, the words:<br /><br />[face=SPIonic]<br />lu/w, lu/eij, lu/ei, lu/omen, lu/ete, lu/ousin<br />[/face]<br /><br />would be grouped together under the first person singular [face=SPIonic]lu/w[/face].<br /><br />And [face=SPIonic]i(/ppoj, i(/ppe, i(/ppon, i(/ppou, i(/ppw|[/face], etc., would all be grouped together under the nominative singular [face=SPIonic]i(/ppoj[/face].<br /><br />Is there a proper term that describes both nominative singular declensions and first person singular conjugations? Base? Root? None of these seem quite right.<br />

[Jeff Tirey]

The only thing i have seen is just "paradigm"

[Lex]

[quote author=jeff link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6204 date=1063808659]<br />The only thing i have seen is just "paradigm"<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yeah, but a paradigm is the entire pattern that you use to incline the words, or so I understood. <br /><br />I suppose it's not all that important what I call a field in a database, anyway. Nobody is going to see field names, if I get the program to handle everything the way I want it to. But I'm anal that way. :-[

[Clemens]

Is there a proper term that describes both nominative singular declensions and first person singular conjugations?

<br />The German word "Wörterbuchform" describes the form of the word that you can find in the dictionary. Maybe there is an English equivalent... ???

[Lex]

[quote author=Clemens link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6207 date=1063810372]<br />

Is there a proper term that describes both nominative singular declensions and first person singular conjugations?

<br />The German word "Wörterbuchform" describes the form of the word that you can find in the dictionary. Maybe there is an English equivalent... ???<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Dictionary form? Hmmmm, that will work as well as anything else, I suppose. Thanks.

[klewlis]

It's properly called the "lexical form", as in the form you use to look it up in the lexicon :)

[Jeff Tirey]

[quote author=Lex link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6205 date=1063809230]<br />[quote author=jeff link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6204 date=1063808659]<br />The only thing i have seen is just "paradigm"<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yeah, but a paradigm is the entire pattern that you use to incline the words, or so I understood. [/quote]<br /><br />That's very true but I have also seen it used with just the first person singular present active of a verb.

[Paul]

[quote author=Lex link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6208 date=1063810649]<br />[quote author=Clemens link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6207 date=1063810372]<br />

Is there a proper term that describes both nominative singular declensions and first person singular conjugations?

<br />The German word "Wörterbuchform" describes the form of the word that you can find in the dictionary. Maybe there is an English equivalent... ???<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Dictionary form? Hmmmm, that will work as well as anything else, I suppose. Thanks.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Hi,<br /><br />You might try the english word 'lemma'.<br /><br />Cordially,<br /><br />Paul<br />

[Lex]

[quote author=jeff link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6210 date=1063811522]<br />[quote author=Lex link=board=2;threadid=658;start=0#6205 date=1063809230]<br />Yeah, but a paradigm is the entire pattern that you use to incline the words, or so I understood. [/quote]<br /><br />That's very true but I have also seen it used with just the first person singular present active of a verb.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />OK, I didn't know that. <br /><br />Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think I'll use "lexical form". "Lemma" brings back too many painful memories of math courses I've had in the past.