linguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.
Senses: examples: text: Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages[…] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament,
ref: 1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia, volume 26, page 152:
text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
antonyms: unlinguistic
glosses: Of or relating to language.
examples: text: We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
antonyms: unlinguistic
glosses: Of or relating to linguistics.
examples: text: The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.
ref: 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: unlinguistic
glosses: Relating to a computer language.
Synonyms: word: linguistical
Derived terms: anilinguistic
anthropolinguistic
biolinguistic
counterlinguistic
cross-linguistic
crosslinguistic
cunnilinguistic
cyberlinguistic
demolinguistic
ecolinguistic
epilinguistic
ethnolinguistic
Eurolinguistic
extralinguistic
geolinguistic
interlinguistic
intralinguistic
linguism
linguistical
linguistically
linguistic anthropology
linguistic atlas
linguistic distance
linguistic diversity index
linguistic ecology
linguistician
linguistic imbalance
linguisticization
linguisticize
linguisticky
linguistic landscape
linguistics
linguistic terrain
linguistic turn
linguistic unit
logicolinguistic
logico-linguistic
macrolinguistic
metalinguistic
microlinguistic
monolinguistic
multilinguistic
neolinguistic
neurolinguistic
neuro-linguistic
nonlinguistic
numerolinguistic
paedolinguistic
palaeolinguistic
paleolinguistic
panlinguistic
paralinguistic
patholinguistic
pedolinguistic
postlinguistic
prelinguistic
protolinguistic
pseudolinguistic
psycholinguistic
quasilinguistic
raciolinguistic
sociolinguistic
sublinguistic
supralinguistic
theolinguistic
translinguistic
unlinguistic
xenolinguistic
Related terms: lingua
lingual
linguality
lingually
linguicism
linguicist
linguicistic
linguicistical
linguicistically
linguiform
linguisticality
linguistically
neurolinguistic programming
neuro-linguistic programming