The paper discusses determinologized lexemes from the points of view of lexicography and terminography. A determinologized lexeme is the result of the transition of a term from a specific terminology to a general lexical inventory, or to put it another way, from scientific texts to texts aimed at the general public. When a term starts to appear in the mass media, it becomes of interest not only to terminological dictionaries, but also general-purpose dictionaries. Such lexemes now
represent a large part of modern vocabulary. Lexicographers should be aware of modifications of meaning, as the term (previously a clear-cut concept) is often subjected to alterations in new contexts. Therefore it is inappropriate to use terminological definitions in general-purpose dictionaries. Based on examples from terminological dictionaries and the SSKJ (Dictionary of the Standard Slovene Language), we have ascertained that the process of determinologization, at least
partially, merges the fields of terminology and general vocabulary, which has to be taken into account by terminographers.
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