sémantique

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós), late 19th c.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /se.mɑ̃.tik/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃tik

Adjective

sémantique (plural sémantiques)

  1. semantic
    Synonym: (rare) significationnel
    champ sémantiquesemantic field
    mémoire sémantiquesemantic memory

Derived terms

Noun

sémantique f (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) semantics
    Coordinate term: pragmatique
    la sémantique formelle(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (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.

Descendants

  • German: Semantik

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