semantic
See also: semàntic
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French sémantique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪˈmæntɪk/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /səˈmæntək/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æntɪk
Adjective
semantic (not comparable)
Antonyms
Derived terms
- asemantic
- autosemantic
- biosemantic
- episemantic
- ethnosemantic
- extrasemantic
- grammaticosemantic
- isosemantic
- lexicosemantic
- metasemantic
- monosemantic
- morphosemantic
- neurosemantic
- nonsemantic
- phonosemantic
- phono-semantic compound
- phono-semantic matching
- polysemantic
- presemantic
- psychosemantic
- quasisemantic
- semanteme
- semantical
- semantically
- semantic analysis
- semantic borrowing
- semantic calque
- semantic change
- semantic differentiation
- semantic drift
- semantic field
- semantician
- semanticism
- semanticist
- semanticity
- semanticization
- semanticize
- semantic loan
- semantic memory
- semantic net
- semantic network
- semantic-pragmatic disorder
- semantic satiation
- semantic shift
- semantic tableau
- semantic versioning
- semantic Web
- synsemantic
- unsemantic
- zoosemantic
Translations
of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words
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Noun
semantic (plural semantics)
- (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.
- 2005, Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, Yinglin Wang, San tzu ching explicated, the classical initiation to classic Chinese couplet I to XI, page 21:
- Its semantic is polysyllabic, viz. it uses the word formations of spoken Chinese.
- 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:
- In this particular case, the semantic is on the left of its host sinogram.
- 2017, Vladimir Skultety, Understanding Chinese Characters:
- The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has been removed.
Translations
References
- Semantic Web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “semantic”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “semantic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "semantic" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- "Semantic code: What? Why? How?" in boagworld.
- “semantic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sémantique.
Adjective
semantic m or n (feminine singular semantică, masculine plural semantici, feminine and neuter plural semantice)
Declension
Declension of semantic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | semantic | semantică | semantici | semantice | ||
definite | semanticul | semantica | semanticii | semanticele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | semantic | semantice | semantici | semantice | ||
definite | semanticului | semanticei | semanticilor | semanticelor |
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