PHONETIC


Meaning of PHONETIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fə-ˈne-tik ]

adjective

Etymology: New Latin phoneticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein to sound with the voice, from phōnē 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-)lē adverb

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