— phonetically , adv.
/feuh net"ik, foh-/ , adj.
1. Also, phonetical . of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2. corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription.
3. agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling.
4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.
n.
5. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
[ 1820-30; phoneticus phonetikós vocal, equiv. to phonet ( ós ) to be spoken (verbid of phoneîn to speak) + -ikos -IC ]