linguistic

See also: lingüistic and lingüístic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist +‎ -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
• Hyphenation: lin‧guis‧tic

Adjective

linguistic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to language.

   Antonym: unlinguistic

   • 1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia‎^[1], volume 26, page 152:

     Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages […] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament,

   • 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

     Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

2. Of or relating to linguistics.

   Antonym: unlinguistic

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

3. (computing) Relating to a computer language.

   Antonym: unlinguistic

   • 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114:

     The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

Synonyms

• linguistical (less common)

Derived terms

• anthropolinguistic
• biolinguistic
• counterlinguistic
• crosslinguistic
• cross-linguistic
• cunnilinguistic
• cyberlinguistic
• demolinguistic
• ecolinguistic
• epilinguistic
• ethnolinguistic
• Eurolinguistic
• extralinguistic
• geolinguistic
• interlinguistic
• intralinguistic
• linguistical
• linguistically
• linguistic anthropology
• linguistic atlas
• linguistic distance
• linguistic diversity index
• linguistic ecology
• linguistician
• linguistic imbalance
• linguistic landscape
• linguistics
• linguistic terrain
• linguistic turn
• linguistic unit
• logicolinguistic
• logico-linguistic
• macrolinguistic
• metalinguistic
• microlinguistic
• monolinguistic
• multilinguistic
• neurolinguistic
• neuro-linguistic
• nonlinguistic
• paedolinguistic
• palaeolinguistic
• paleolinguistic
• panlinguistic
• paralinguistic
• patholinguistic
• pedolinguistic
• prelinguistic
• protolinguistic
• pseudolinguistic
• psycholinguistic
• quasilinguistic
• sociolinguistic
• sublinguistic
• supralinguistic
• theolinguistic
• translinguistic
• unlinguistic
• xenolinguistic

 

Related terms

• lingua
• lingual
• linguality
• lingually
• linguicism
• linguicist
• linguicistic
• linguicistical
• linguicistically
• linguiform
• linguisticality
• linguistically
• neurolinguistic programming
• neuro-linguistic programming

 

Translations

of or relating to language

• Albanian: gjuhësor (sq), linguistik
• Arabic: لُغَوِيّ (luḡawiyy), لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy)
• Armenian: լեզվական (hy) (lezvakan)
• Azerbaijani: dilçilik
• Belarusian: мо́ўны (móŭny), лінгвісты́чны (linhvistýčny)
• Bengali: ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিকk (bhaśabōiggênikk), ভাষাগত (bhaśagoto)
• Bulgarian: езико́в (ezikóv), лингвисти́чен (lingvistíčen)
• Burmese: ဘာသာစကား (my) (bhasaca.ka:)
• Catalan: lingüístic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語言的 / 语言的 (zh) (yǔyán de)

• Czech: jazykový (cs), lingvistický (cs)
• Danish: sproglig
• Esperanto: lingva
• Estonian: keeleline, keele- (et)
• Finnish: kielellinen (fi), kieli- (fi)
• French: linguistique (fr), lingual (fr)
• Galician: lingüístico (gl)
• Georgian: ენობრივი (enobrivi), ლინგვისტური (lingvisṭuri)
• German: sprachlich (de), linguistisch (de)
• Greek: γλωσσικός (el) (glossikós)
• Hebrew: לְשׁוֹנִי (l'shoní)
• Hindi: भाषाई (bhāṣāī)
• Hungarian: nyelvi (hu)
• Indonesian: linguistik (id), bahasa (id)
• Irish: teangach, teangúil
• Italian: linguistico (it)
• Japanese: 言語の (ja) (げ​んごの, gengo no)
• Kazakh: тіл (kk) (tıl), тілдік (tıldık), лингвистикалық (liñvistikalyq)
• Khmer: ភាសា (km) (phiəsaa)
• Korean: 언어의 (ko) (eoneoui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zimanî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тил (ky) (til), тилдик (tildik), лингвистикалык (lingvistikalık)
• Lao: ພາສາ (lo) (phā sā)
• Latvian: lingvistisks, valodniecisks
• Lithuanian: kalbinis
• Luxembourgish: sproochlech
• Macedonian: јазичен (jazičen), лингвистички (lingvistički)
• Malay: bahasa (ms), linguistik (ms)
• Maltese: lingwistiku
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хэл шинжлэлийн (xel šinžleliin)

• Norman: lîndgistique
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: språklig (no)

  Nynorsk: språkleg

• Occitan: lingüistic (oc)
• Pashto: ژبنی (žǝbanáy), لساني (lesāní)
• Persian: زبانی (fa) (zabâni), لسانی (fa) (lesâni)
• Polish: językowy (pl), lingwistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: linguístico (pt)
• Romanian: lingvistic (ro)
• Russian: языково́й (ru) (jazykovój), лингвисти́ческий (ru) (lingvistíčeskij), язы́чный (ru) (jazýčnyj), лингва́льный (ru) (lingválʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јѐзичкӣ, јѐзичнӣ, лингвѝстичкӣ

  Roman: jèzičkī (sh), jèzičnī (sh), lingvìstičkī (sh)

• Skolt Sami: ǩiõllʼlaž
• Slovak: lingvistický
• Slovene: jezikóven, jezíčen
• Spanish: lingüístico (es), lingual (es)
• Swedish: språklig (sv)
• Tajik: забонӣ (zaboni), лисонӣ (lisoni)
• Thai: ภาษา (th) (paa-sǎa)
• Turkish: dil bilimi (tr)
• Turkmen: dil (tk), lingwistik
• Ukrainian: мо́вний (uk) (móvnyj), лінгвісти́чний (linhvistýčnyj)
• Urdu: لسانی (lisānī)
• Uyghur: تىل (ug) (til)
• Uzbek: til (uz), lingvistik (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ (vi)
• Volapük: pükik (vo)
• Yiddish: שפּראַכלעך (shprakhlekh)

of or relating to linguistics

• Armenian: լեզվաբանական (hy) (lezvabanakan)
• Belarusian: лінгвісты́чны (linhvistýčny)
• Bulgarian: лингвисти́чен (lingvistíčen)
• Catalan: lingüístic (ca)
• Czech: lingvistický (cs)
• Danish: lingvistisk, sprogvidenskabelig
• Faroese: málfrøðiligur
• Finnish: kielitieteellinen (fi)
• French: linguistique (fr)
• Galician: lingüístico (gl)
• German: sprachwissenschaftlich (de), linguistisch (de)
• Greek: γλωσσολογικός (el) (glossologikós)
• Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁנִי
• Indonesian: linguistik (id)
• Irish: teangeolaíoch
• Italian: linguistico (it), ^{(please verify)} glottologico (it)
• Latvian: lingvistisks, valodniecisks
• Maltese: lingwistiku
• Norman: lîndgistique
• Norwegian: lingvistisk, språkvitenskapelig
• Occitan: lingüistic (oc)
• Polish: językoznawczy (pl), lingwistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: linguístico (pt)
• Romanian: lingvistic (ro), de lingvistică
• Russian: лингвисти́ческий (ru) (lingvistíčeskij), языкове́дческий (ru) (jazykovédčeskij)
• Skolt Sami: ǩiõllʼlaž
• Spanish: lingüístico (es)
• Swedish: språkvetenskaplig (sv), lingvistisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: лінгвісти́чний (linhvistýčnyj)
• Volapük: pükavik (vo)

of or relating to computer languages

• Finnish: kielellinen (fi)
• Romanian: computero-lingvistic
• Volapük: nünömapükik, programelapükik

Anagrams

• linguicist

Ladin

Adjective

linguistic m pl

1. plural of linguistich

Romanian

Adjective

linguistic m or n (feminine singular linguistică, masculine plural linguistici, feminine and neuter plural linguistice)

1. Alternative form of lingvistic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	linguistic		linguistică		linguistici	linguistice
	definite	linguisticul		linguistica		linguisticii	linguisticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	linguistic		linguistice		linguistici	linguistice
	definite	linguisticului		linguisticei		linguisticilor	linguisticelor