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linguistic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ (UK, US)
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Etymology

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to language.
    • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
    • Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages[…] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament, 1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia, volume 26, page 152:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to linguistics.
    • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
  3. (not-comparable) Relating to a computer language.
    • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies. 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114:

Antonyms

unlinguistic · unlinguistic · unlinguistic

Deriveds

linguistic map · geolinguistic · paleolinguistic · biolinguistic · linguisticization · neuro-linguistic · linguistic atlas · cross-linguistic · prelinguistic · paedolinguistic · supralinguistic · patholinguistic · linguistic unit · unlinguistic · sublinguistic · monolinguistic · quasilinguistic · anilinguistic · pseudolinguistic · ecolinguistic · linguisticky · palaeolinguistic · linguistic ecology · intralinguistic · neolinguistic · multilinguistic · nonlinguistic · linguistic diversity index · paralinguistic · macrolinguistic · crosslinguistic · linguistic terrain · panlinguistic · linguistician · metalinguistic · logico-linguistic · linguistics · postlinguistic · pedolinguistic · linguism · raciolinguistic · counterlinguistic · numerolinguistic · anthropolinguistic · cunnilinguistic · linguistic landscape · interlinguistic · linguistic turn · linguistical · logicolinguistic · linguistic distance · microlinguistic · sociolinguistic · protolinguistic · neurolinguistic · linguistically · linguistic imbalance · psycholinguistic · extralinguistic · Eurolinguistic · demolinguistic · linguisticize · cyberlinguistic · translinguistic · epilinguistic · ethnolinguistic · linguistic anthropology · theolinguistic · xenolinguistic

Relateds

linguality · linguicistic · lingua · lingually · linguistically · linguiform · linguicism · neuro-linguistic programming · linguisticality · neurolinguistic programming · linguicist · lingual · linguicistically · linguicistical

Synonyms

linguistical

Translations (146)

kmr zimanî (of or relating to language) · hy լեզվական (of or relating to language) · sh lingvìstičkī (of or relating to language) · cs lingvistický (of or relating to language) · oc lingüistic (of or relating to linguistics) · he לְשׁוֹנִי (of or relating to language) · sh jèzičkī (of or relating to language) · ky тилдик (of or relating to language) · vo pükavik (of or relating to linguistics) · ca lingüístic (of or relating to linguistics) · th ภาษา (of or relating to language) · de sprachlich (of or relating to language) · ro lingvistic (of or relating to language) · pl lingwistyczny (of or relating to linguistics) · sl jezikóven (of or relating to language) · be мо́ўны (of or relating to language) · hu nyelvi (of or relating to language) · pl lingwistyczny (of or relating to language) · ms linguistik (of or relating to language) · bn ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিকk (of or relating to language) · fa لسانی (of or relating to language) · bg езико́в (of or relating to language) · fr linguistique (of or relating to linguistics) · cmn 語言的 /语言的 (of or relating to language) · mk лингвистички (of or relating to language) · be лінгвісты́чны (of or relating to linguistics) · uz til (of or relating to language) · ka ენობრივი (of or relating to language) · mt lingwistiku (of or relating to linguistics) · sh jèzičnī (of or relating to language) · ru язы́чный (of or relating to language) · ko 언어의 (of or relating to language) · ga teangeolaíoch (of or relating to linguistics) · vo nünömapükik (of or relating to computer languages) · nn språkleg (of or relating to language) · cs jazykový (of or relating to language) · ru лингва́льный (of or relating to language) · ru языкове́дческий (of or relating to linguistics) · id bahasa (of or relating to language) · de linguistisch (of or relating to linguistics) · uk лінгвісти́чний (of or relating to language) · ja 言語の (of or relating to language) · es lingüístico (of or relating to linguistics) · kk лингвистикалық (of or relating to language) · sms ǩiõllʼlaž (of or relating to linguistics) · de sprachwissenschaftlich (of or relating to linguistics) · it linguistico (of or relating to language) · gl lingüístico (of or relating to linguistics) · ms bahasa (of or relating to language) · ar لِسَانِيّ (of or relating to language) · ky лингвистикалык (of or relating to language) · ga teangúil (of or relating to language) · tg забонӣ (of or relating to language) · oc lingüistic (of or relating to language) · lv lingvistisks (of or relating to language) · sq gjuhësor (of or relating to language) · it linguistico (of or relating to linguistics) · tk lingwistik (of or relating to language) · ga teangach (of or relating to language) · sms ǩiõllʼlaž (of or relating to language) · el γλωσσολογικός (of or relating to linguistics) · fi kielitieteellinen (of or relating to linguistics) · ro computero-lingvistic (of or relating to computer languages) · he בַּלְשָׁנִי (of or relating to linguistics) · gl lingüístico (of or relating to language) · ky тил (of or relating to language) · da sprogvidenskabelig (of or relating to linguistics) · uk лінгвісти́чний (of or relating to linguistics) · sv språkvetenskaplig (of or relating to linguistics) · da lingvistisk (of or relating to linguistics) · mt lingwistiku (of or relating to language) · ps لساني (of or relating to language) · ru языково́й (of or relating to language) · sv lingvistisk (of or relating to linguistics) · yi שפּראַכלעך (of or relating to language) · lo ພາສາ (of or relating to language) · ur لسانی (of or relating to language) · ug تىل (of or relating to language) · be лінгвісты́чны (of or relating to language) · nrf lîndgistique (of or relating to linguistics) · fi kielellinen (of or relating to computer languages) · sk lingvistický (of or relating to language) · fi kielellinen (of or relating to language) · ro de lingvistică (of or relating to linguistics) · tk dil (of or relating to language) · ru лингвисти́ческий (of or relating to linguistics) · bn ভাষাগত (of or relating to language) · my ဘာသာစကား (of or relating to language) · az dilçilik (of or relating to language) · et keeleline (of or relating to language) · uk мо́вний (of or relating to language) · de linguistisch (of or relating to language) · ca lingüístic (of or relating to language) · kk тіл (of or relating to language) · et keele- (of or relating to language) · ps ژبنی (of or relating to language) · sl jezíčen (of or relating to language) · vo pükik (of or relating to language) · ro lingvistic (of or relating to linguistics) · km ភាសា (of or relating to language) · pl językoznawczy (of or relating to linguistics) · sq linguistik (of or relating to language) · pt linguístico (of or relating to language) · nrf lîndgistique (of or relating to language) · no språkvitenskapelig (of or relating to linguistics) · lt kalbinis (of or relating to language) · mk јазичен (of or relating to language) · sv språklig (of or relating to language) · es lingual (of or relating to language) · fr lingual (of or relating to language) · es lingüístico (of or relating to language) · el γλωσσικός (of or relating to language) · sh јѐзичкӣ (of or relating to language) · pt linguístico (of or relating to linguistics) · id linguistik (of or relating to language) · sh јѐзичнӣ (of or relating to language) · ar لُغَوِيّ (of or relating to language) · eo lingva (of or relating to language) · hy լեզվաբանական (of or relating to linguistics) · fr linguistique (of or relating to language) · lv valodniecisks (of or relating to linguistics) · fo málfrøðiligur (of or relating to linguistics) · fa زبانی (of or relating to language) · vi ngôn ngữ (of or relating to language) · cs lingvistický (of or relating to linguistics) · bg лингвисти́чен (of or relating to language) · vo programelapükik (of or relating to computer languages) · lv lingvistisks (of or relating to linguistics) · tg лисонӣ (of or relating to language) · hi भाषाई (of or relating to language) · mn хэл шинжлэлийн (of or relating to language) · ru лингвисти́ческий (of or relating to language) · sh лингвѝстичкӣ (of or relating to language) · id linguistik (of or relating to linguistics) · lv valodniecisks (of or relating to language) · lb sproochlech (of or relating to language) · tr dil bilimi (of or relating to language) · nb språklig (of or relating to language) · da sproglig (of or relating to language) · fi kieli- (of or relating to language) · no lingvistisk (of or relating to linguistics) · pl językowy (of or relating to language) · kk тілдік (of or relating to language) · uz lingvistik (of or relating to language) · bg лингвисти́чен (of or relating to linguistics) · ka ლინგვისტური (of or relating to language)