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linguistic definition
Overview
This page has 5 definitions of linguistic in English, Ladin, and Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan. Linguistic is an adjective. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
See also: lingüistic and lingüístic
English linguistic definition
Etymology
Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic.[1] Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue”). Attested in English since 1825.[2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
linguistic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to language.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
- 1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia[1], volume 26, page 152:
- 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,
- 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
- 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.
- Of or relating to linguistics.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
- 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.
- (computing) Relating to a computer language.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
Synonyms
- linguistical (less common)
Derived terms
- anthropolinguistic
- biolinguistic
- counterlinguistic
- cross-linguistic
- crosslinguistic
- cunnilinguistic
- cyberlinguistic
- demolinguistic
- ecolinguistic
- epilinguistic
- ethnolinguistic
- Eurolinguistic
- extralinguistic
- geolinguistic
- interlinguistic
- intralinguistic
- linguistical
- linguisticality
- linguistically
- linguistic anthropology
- linguistic atlas
- linguistic ecology
- linguistician
- linguistic imbalance
- linguistic landscape
- linguistics
- linguistic terrain
- linguistic turn
- logicolinguistic
- logico-linguistic
- macrolinguistic
- metalinguistic
- microlinguistic
- monolinguistic
- multilinguistic
- neurolinguistic
- neuro-linguistic programming
- nonlinguistic
- paedolinguistic
- panlinguistic
- paralinguistic
- patholinguistic
- prelinguistic
- protolinguistic
- pseudolinguistic
- psycholinguistic
- quasilinguistic
- sociolinguistic
- sublinguistic
- supralinguistic
- theolinguistic
- translinguistic
- unlinguistic
- xenolinguistic
Related terms
- lingua
- lingual
- linguality
- lingually
- linguicism
- linguicist
- linguicistic
- linguicistical
- linguicistically
- linguiform
Translations
of or relating to language
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of or relating to linguistics
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of or relating to computer languages
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “linguistic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “linguistic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Ladin linguistic definition
Adjective
linguistic m pl
Romanian linguistic definition
Adjective
linguistic m or n (feminine singular linguistică, masculine plural linguistici, feminine and neuter plural linguistice)
- Alternative form of lingvistic
Declension
Declension of linguistic
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | linguistic | linguistică | linguistici | linguistice | ||
| definite | linguisticul | linguistica | linguisticii | linguisticele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | linguistic | linguistice | linguistici | linguistice | ||
| definite | linguisticului | linguisticei | linguisticilor | linguisticelor | |||