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

Derived terms

• champ sémantique
• mémoire sémantique

Descendants

• → English: semantic
• → German: Semantik

Noun

sémantique f (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) semantics

   Coordinate term: pragmatique

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.

Derived terms

• sémantique formelle

Further reading

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