# semantic
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈmæntɪk/
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /səˈmæntək/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æntɪk

### Adjective

semantic (not comparable)
* Of or relating to semantics 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 or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.

#### Antonyms

* antisemantic

#### Derived terms

* asemantic
* autosemantic
* biosemantic
* endosemantic
* episemantic
* ethnosemantic
* exosemantic
* extrasemantic
* grammaticosemantic
* isosemantic
* lexicosemantic
* metasemantic
* monosemantic
* morphosemantic
* neurosemantic
* nonsemantic
* phonosemantic
* phono-semantic compound
* phono-semantic matching
* polysemantic
* presemantic
* psychosemantic
* quasisemantic
* semanteme
* 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

#### Related terms

* semantical
* semantics
* semasiology
* sematic
* sematology
* seme
* sememe
* semiotic
* semiotics

#### Translations
### 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** 2017, Vladimir Skultety, Understanding Chinese Characters:The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person'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.
* ↑ “semantic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* amnestic, ancestim, nematics

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sémantique.

### Adjective

semantic m or n (feminine singular semantică, masculine plural semantici, feminine and neuter plural semantice)
* semantic