Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The study of phonemes and their written representations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: phonology
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: descriptive linguistics
Narrower terms: orthoepy
History
Etymology tree English phoneme Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English phonemics From phoneme + -ics.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
