Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 9

= March 9 =

Difference between interlingual homographs and interlexical homographs?
I'm currently copyediting an article, Bilingual lexical access, and I've come across two terms: "interlingual homographs" and "interlexical homographs". Are the terms different, or are they interchangeable? "Interlexical homographs" were suddenly introduced without a wikilink or a same-page explanation. -- Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝)  03:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Both terms are present in the oldest revision. I think they mean the same: homographs shared between languages are homographs shared between their lexica. --Lambiam 07:24, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response, . I had been looking through two or three scientific abstracts and it seems they're also used interchangeably there. -- Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝)  15:50, 9 March 2020 (UTC)