■ adjective
1》 having or relating to subjects or a particular subject.
2》 Music relating to or containing melodic subjects.
3》 Linguistics relating to the theme of an inflected word.
↘(of a vowel) connecting the theme of a word to its inflections.
↘(of a word) having a ~ vowel.
■ noun ( ~s ) [treated as sing. or plural ] a body of topics for study or discussion.
Derivatives
~ally adverb
Origin
C17: from Gk thematikos , from thema (see theme ).