English Explanatory Dictionary

linguistics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The systematic and scholarly study of language.

Pronunciation

/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ En-us-linguistics.ogg

Word forms

linguistics

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *denɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.

Synonyms

glossology glottology linguistry speechlore wordlore linguistics

Related words

linguicist linguist linguistic linguistical linguistically diction epigraphy grammar morphology philology phonetics phonology pragmatics semantics syntax language dialect word pronunciation sense meaning understanding etymology word origin inflection declension conjugation derivation gradation etymon root morpheme affix prefix suffix combining form compound lexeme phoneme grapheme lexical item term phrase clause sentence corpus collocation

Derived words

algebraic linguistics anthropolinguistics applied linguistics archaeolinguistics armchair linguistics astrolinguistics biolinguistics clinical linguistics cognitive linguistics comparative linguistics computational linguistics contact linguistics contrastive linguistics corpus linguistics critical applied linguistics cryptolinguistics culinary linguistics cunning linguistics cyberlinguistics demolinguistics diachronic linguistics ecolinguistics ethnolinguistics Eurolinguistics evolutionary linguistics folk linguistics forensic linguistics functional linguistics geolinguistics historical linguistics interlinguistics internet linguistics lavender linguistics macrolinguistics metalinguistics microlinguistics neolinguistics netlinguistics neurolinguistics paedolinguistics palaeolinguistics paleolinguistics paralinguistics patholinguistics pedolinguistics phylolinguistics protolinguistics pseudolinguistics pseudo-linguistics psycholinguistics quantitative linguistics raciolinguistics sociolinguistics text linguistics theolinguistics xenolinguistics
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