Vocable (lexicography)

In lexicography, a vocable (from Latin: vocabulum) is the word or phrase which is explained by a dictionary entry and serves as its title. Often several related lexical units are grouped under the same vocable.[1][2]

Here "ahoy", "aht", etc. are vocables

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References

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  1. ^ Alain Polguère, A Lexicographic Approach to the Study of Copolysemy Relations, Russian Journal of Linguistics 22(4), 2018, pp. 788–820
  2. ^ An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach, p.188