Lemma (from Ancient Greek λῆμμα premise, assumption, from Greek λαμβάνω I take, I get) may refer to:
Language and linguistics
- Lemma (morphology), the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word
- Lemma (psycholinguistics), a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered
Science and mathematics
- Lemma (botany), a part of a grass plant
- Lemma (mathematics), a proven proposition used as a step in a larger proof
Other uses
- Lemma (album), by John Zorn (2013)
- Lemma (logic), an informal contention
See also
- Analemma, a diagram showing the variation of the position of the Sun in the sky
- Dilemma
- Lema (disambiguation)
- Lemmatisation
- Neurolemma, part of a neuron
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