emphatique

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós).[1] By surface analysis, emphase +‎ -ique with -t- /t/ replacing -se /z/.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.fa.tik/
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Adjective

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emphatique (plural emphatiques)

  1. (of a person's modes of expression)
    1. exaggerated (marked by exaggeration)
      Synonyms: démesuré, exagéré, immodéré
    2. inflated, pompous, pretentious, pedantic (marked by unnatural linguistic inflation meant to make what is communicated seem more intelligent)
      Synonyms: académique, apprêté, boursouflé, grandiloquent, pédantesque, pompeux, prétentieux, ronflant, sentencieux
  2. (phonetics, linguistics) emphatic (characterized by emphasis)

References

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  1. ^ emphatique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.