PHONETIC


Meaning of PHONETIC in English

adj.

Pronunciation: f ə - ' ne-tik

Function: adjective

Etymology: New Latin phoneticus, from Greek ph ō n ē tikos, from ph ō nein to sound with the voice, from ph ō n ē voice

Date: 1819

1 a : of or relating to spoken language or speech sounds b : of or relating to the science of phonetics

2 : representing the sounds and other phenomena of speech: as a : constituting an alteration of ordinary spelling that better represents the spoken language, that employs only characters of the regular alphabet, and that is used in a context of conventional spelling b : representing speech sounds by means of symbols that have one value only c : employing for speech sounds more than the minimum number of symbols necessary to represent the significant differences in a speaker's speech

– pho · net · i · cal · ly \ -ti-k( ə -)l ē \ adverb

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary.      Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка.