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linguistic

adj
/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from lingua — “tongue, language”
  2. borrowed from linguistisch

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to language.

    • 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.

    • 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. Relating to a computer language.

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

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Derived

anilinguistic, anthropolinguistic, biolinguistic, counterlinguistic, cross-linguistic, crosslinguistic, cunnilinguistic, cyberlinguistic, demolinguistic, ecolinguistic, epilinguistic, ethnolinguistic, Eurolinguistic, extralinguistic, geolinguistic, interlinguistic, intralinguistic, linguism, linguistical, linguistically, linguistic anthropology, linguistic atlas, linguistic distance, linguistic diversity index, linguistic ecology, linguistician, linguistic imbalance, linguisticization, linguisticize, linguisticky, linguistic landscape, linguistic map, linguistics, linguistic terrain, linguistic turn, linguistic unit, logico-linguistic, logicolinguistic, macrolinguistic, metalinguistic · +29 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at linguistic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at linguistic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at linguistic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA