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phonetic

[ fuh-net-ik ]

adjective

  1. Also pho·net·i·cal [] of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  2. corresponding to pronunciation:

    phonetic transcription.

  3. agreeing with pronunciation:

    phonetic spelling.

  4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.


noun

  1. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.

phonetic

/ fəˈnɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to phonetics
  2. denoting any perceptible distinction between one speech sound and another, irrespective of whether the sounds are phonemes or allophones Compare phonemic
  3. conforming to pronunciation

    phonetic spelling



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Derived Forms

  • phoˈnetically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • pho·net·i·cal·ly adverb
  • non·pho·net·ic adjective
  • non·pho·net·i·cal adjective
  • un·pho·net·ic adjective
  • un·pho·net·i·cal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of phonetic1

First recorded in 1820–30; from New Latin phōnēticus, from Greek phōnētikós “vocal,” equivalent to phōnēt(ós) “to be spoken” (verbid of phōneîn “to speak”) + -ikos adjective suffix; -ic

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Word History and Origins

Origin of phonetic1

C19: from New Latin phōnēticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein to make sounds, speak

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