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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós), late 19th c.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sémantique (plural sémantiques)
- semantic
- Synonym: (rare) significationnel
- champ sémantique ― semantic field
- mémoire sémantique ― semantic memory
Derived terms
Noun
sémantique f (uncountable)
- (linguistics) semantics
- Coordinate term: pragmatique
- la sémantique formelle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (linguistics) meaning, signification
- Synonyms: signification, sens
Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d’état.- Copulas, which amount only to syntactic links between subject and complement since their own semantic content has been lost, are often stative verbs.
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