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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pho•net•ic /fəˈnɛtɪk, foʊ-/USA pronunciation adj. - [before a noun] of or relating to phonetics, or to the sound system of a language:the phonetic rules governing the pronunciation of the letter t in English.
of or relating to a system of spelling or writing in which one sound is represented by one letter, and one letter represents only one sound:Finnish has a phonetic spelling system, but Swedish does not.See -phon-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pho•net•ic (fə net′ik, fō-),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguistics, PhoneticsAlso, pho•net′i•cal. of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- Linguistics, Phoneticscorresponding to pronunciation:phonetic transcription.
- Linguistics, Phoneticsagreeing with pronunciation:phonetic spelling.
- Linguistics, Phoneticsconcerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.
n. - Linguistics(in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- Greek phōnētikós vocal, equivalent. to phōnēt(ós) to be spoken (verbid of phōneîn to speak) + -ikos -ic
- Neo-Latin phōnēticus
- 1820–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: phonetic /fəˈnɛtɪk/ adj - of or relating to phonetics
- denoting any perceptible distinction between one speech sound and another, irrespective of whether the sounds are phonemes or allophones
- conforming to pronunciation: phonetic spelling
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin phōnēticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein to make sounds, speakphoˈnetically adv |