phonetic
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PHONETICCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)#PHONETICBorrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#PHONETICCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PHONETIC phōnēticus, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PHONETIC φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -eticCategory:English terms suffixed with -etic#PHONETIC.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/Category:English 3-syllable words#PHONETICCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PHONETIC
- (North India) IPA(key): /foˈnɛ.ʈɪk/Category:English 3-syllable words#PHONETICCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PHONETIC
- (South India) IPA(key): /ˈfɵ.nᵻ.ʈɪk/Category:English 3-syllable words#PHONETICCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PHONETIC
- Hyphenation: pho‧net‧ic
- Homophones: phenetic; fanatic (only in certain topolects with the met–mat merger)Category:English terms with homophones#PHONETIC
Adjective
phonetic (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PHONETICCategory:English adjectives#PHONETICCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#PHONETICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PHONETICCategory:Pages with entries#PHONETICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PHONETIC
- Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#PHONETIC) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
- Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
- All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHONETIC
Derived terms
- antiphonetic
- dysphonetic
- ideophonetic
- international phonetic alphabet
- morphophonetic
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- nonphonetic
- phonetical
- phonetically
- phonetic alphabet
- phonetic determinative
- phonetic erosion
- phoneticism
- phoneticist
- phoneticize
- phonetic name
- phonetic spelling alphabet
- phonetic symbol
- phonetic symbolism
- prephonetic
- psychophonetic
- sociophonetic
- unphonetic
Related terms
Translations
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Noun
phonetic (plural phonetics)Category:English lemmas#PHONETICCategory:English nouns#PHONETICCategory:English countable nouns#PHONETICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PHONETICCategory:Pages with entries#PHONETICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PHONETIC
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#PHONETIC) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
- 1887–88, J. Edkins, “The character 眞 true”, in The China Review, volume 16, page 306:
- I suspect that 田 dien is the original character and true phonetic of the whole group.Category:English terms with quotations#PHONETIC
- 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy:
- In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as the phonetic.Category:English terms with quotations#PHONETIC
- 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:
- Or, the semantic may wrap around the phonetic, or position within the phonetic.Category:English terms with quotations#PHONETIC