sémantique

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 sémantique ― semantic field

   mémoire sémantique ― semantic memory

Derived terms

• sémantiquement

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

Further reading

• “sémantique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.