Borrowed fromAncient Greekσημαντικός(sēmantikós). CompareFrenchsémantique.[1]
semantic (notcomparable)
- Of or relating tosemantics or the meanings of words.[from late 19th c.]
- (software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
- (slang, of a detail or distinction)Petty ortrivial;(of a person or statement)quibbling,niggling.
of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words
- Arabic:دَلَالَات الأَلفَاظ
- Asturian:semánticu
- Belarusian:семанты́чны(sjemantýčny)
- Catalan:semàntic
- Czech:sémantický (cs),významový
- Dutch:semantisch (nl)
- Finnish:semanttinen (fi),merkitysopillinen
- French:sémantique (fr)
- German:semantisch (de)
- Greek:σημασιολογικός (el)(simasiologikós)
- Hindi:अर्थसंबंधी(arthasambandhī)
- Hungarian:szemantikus (hu),szemantikai (hu),jelentéstani (hu),jelentésbeli
- Icelandic:merkingarlegur,merkingarfræðilegur
- Indonesian:semantis (id)
- Italian:semantico (it)
- Japanese:意味的な(imiteki na)
- Kazakh:семантикалық(semantikalyq)
- Korean:시멘틱(simentik)
- Maltese:semantika
- Marathi:शब्दार्थासंबंधीचा m(śabdārthāsambandhīcā)
- Polish:semantyczny (pl)
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- Russian:семанти́ческий (ru)(semantíčeskij)
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- Ukrainian:семанти́чний(semantýčnyj)
- White Hmong:lub ntsiab
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semantic (pluralsemantics)
- (linguistics) In such writing systems as theChinese writing system, the portion of aphono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning;contrasted withphonetic.
2005, Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, Yinglin Wang,San tzu ching explicated, the classical initiation to classic Chinese couplet I to XI, page21:Itssemantic 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, page25:In this particular case, thesemantic 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2017, Vladimir Skultety,Understanding Chinese Characters:The 亻(人) ren2 'person'semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water'semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has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.
component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates meaning
Semantic Web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- “semantic”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin,2000,→ISBN.
- “semantic”, inDictionary.com Unabridged,Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "semantic" inWordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- "Semantic code: What? Why? How?" in boagworld.
- “semantic”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Borrowed fromFrenchsémantique.
semantic m orn (feminine singularsemantică,masculine pluralsemantici,feminine and neuter pluralsemantice)
- semantic
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