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se⋅mi⋅ot⋅ic

  [see-mee-ot-ik, sem-ee, see-mahy-]
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–adjective Also, se⋅mi⋅ot⋅i⋅cal.
1. of or pertaining to signs.
2. of or pertaining to semiotics.
3. Medicine/Medical. of or pertaining to symptoms; symptomatic.
–noun
4. semiotics.
Origin:
1615–20; (def. 3) < Gk sēmeiōtikós significant, equiv. to sēmeiō-, verbid s. of sēmeioûn to interpret as a sign (deriv. of Gk sēmeîon sign) + -tikos -tic; (def. 4) < Gk sēmeiōtik, n. use of fem. of sēmeiōtikós, adapted by John Locke (on the model of Gk logik logic, etc.; see -ic ) to mean “the doctrine of signs”; (defs. 1, 2) based on Locke's coinage or a reanalysis of the Gk word
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se·mi·ot·ic   (sē'mē-ŏt'ĭk, sěm'ē-, sē'mī-)   
adj.  

  1. Of or relating to semiotics.

  2. Relating to symptomatology.


[Greek sēmeiōtikos, observant of signs, significant, from sēmeiōsis, indication, from sēmeioun, to signal, to interpret as a sign, from sēmeion, sign, from sēma.]
se'mi·ot'i·cal·ly adv.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: se·mi·ot·ic
Pronunciation: -'ät-ik
Variant: or se·mi·ot·ics /-iks/
Function:noun
Inflected Form: plural semiotics
: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificiallyconstructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics —semiotic adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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