semantic: [17] Sēma was the Greek word for ‘sign’. It has been widely pressed into service in the modern European languages for coining new terms, including semaphore [19] (a borrowing from French, which etymologically means ‘signal-carrier’), semasiology [19] (a German coinage), and semiology [17]. The adjective derived from sēma was semantikós which reached English via French sémantique. It was fleetingly adopted in the mid-17th century as a word for ‘interpreting the ‘signs’ of weather’, but it did not come into its own as a linguistic term until the end of the 19th century. => semaphore, semiology
semantic (adj.)
1894, from French sémantique, applied by Michel Bréal (1883) to the psychology of language, from Greek semantikos "significant," from semainein "to show by sign, signify, point out, indicate by a sign," from sema "sign, mark, token; omen, portent; constellation; grave" (Doric sama), from PIE root *dheie- "to see, look" (cognates: Sanskrit dhyati "he meditates;" see zen).
雙語例句
1. He did not want to enter into a semantic debate.
他不想就語義進行爭辯。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We shall often find correlation between grammatical and semantic categories.
我們往往會發現語法范疇和語義范疇之間的相互聯系.
來自辭典例句
3. Other semantic entanglements might be mentioned.
還可以舉出一些語義上的其他混亂現象.
來自辭典例句
4. There are two kinds of puns, phonetic pun and semantic pun.
雙關語分為諧音雙關和語義雙關兩類.
來自互聯網
5. Finally, we illustrated the expression role of body attributive semantic research.