lemmata

plural of lemma

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λήμμᾰτᾰ (lḗmmata).

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A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
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