linguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
note: US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lingua
English -ist
English linguist
English -ics
English linguistics
From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.
Senses: examples: text: a branch of linguistics
text: to study linguistics
text: By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.
ref: 1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:
synonyms: glossology
glottology
linguistry
speechlore
wordlore
glosses: The systematic and scholarly study of language.
Synonyms: word: linguistics
word: speechlore
Meronyms: word: phonetics
word: phonology
word: phonemics
word: morphology
word: syntax
word: semantics
word: pragmatics
word: philology
word: algebraic linguistics
word: applied linguistics
word: biolinguistics
word: clinical linguistics
word: comparative linguistics
word: computational linguistics
word: diachronic linguistics
word: ecolinguistics
word: Eurolinguistics
word: evolutionary linguistics
word: historical linguistics
word: interlinguistics
word: neurolinguistics
word: psycholinguistics
word: sociolinguistics
word: xenolinguistics
Derived terms: algebraic linguistics
anthropolinguistics
applied linguistics
archaeolinguistics
armchair linguistics
astrolinguistics
biolinguistics
clinical linguistics
cognitive linguistics
comparative linguistics
computational linguistics
contact linguistics
contrastive linguistics
corpus linguistics
critical applied linguistics
cryptolinguistics
culinary linguistics
cunning linguistics
cyberlinguistics
demolinguistics
diachronic linguistics
ecolinguistics
ethnolinguistics
Eurolinguistics
evolutionary linguistics
folk linguistics
forensic linguistics
functional linguistics
geolinguistics
historical linguistics
interlinguistics
internet linguistics
lavender linguistics
macrolinguistics
metalinguistics
microlinguistics
neolinguistics
netlinguistics
neurolinguistics
paedolinguistics
palaeolinguistics
paleolinguistics
paralinguistics
patholinguistics
pedolinguistics
phylolinguistics
protolinguistics
pseudolinguistics
pseudo-linguistics
psycholinguistics
quantitative linguistics
raciolinguistics
sociolinguistics
text linguistics
theolinguistics
xenolinguistics
Related terms: word: linguicist
word: linguist
word: linguistic
word: linguistical
word: linguistically
word: diction
word: epigraphy
word: grammar
word: morphology
word: philology
word: phonetics
word: phonology
word: pragmatics
word: semantics
word: syntax
word: language
word: dialect
word: word
word: pronunciation
word: sense
word: meaning
word: understanding
word: etymology
word: word origin
word: inflection
word: declension
word: conjugation
word: derivation
word: gradation
word: etymon
word: root
word: morpheme
word: affix
word: prefix
word: suffix
word: combining form
word: compound
word: lexeme
word: phoneme
word: grapheme
word: lexical item
word: term
word: phrase
word: clause
word: sentence
word: corpus
word: collocation