lemmatize
transitive verb
lem·ma·tize
\ˈleməˌtīz, -ətˌīz\
Definition of lemmatize
-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
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Origin and Etymology of lemmatize
New Latin lemmat-, lemma lemma + English -ize
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