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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Greek
Origin: semantikos 'having meaning', from semainein 'to mean', from sema 'sign'

semantic

 adjective
     
Related topics: Linguistics
se‧man‧tic formal
SL relating to the meanings of words
—semantically adverb
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