semantic

seman-,语义，-tic,形容词后缀。

semantic

semantic: [17] Sēma was the Greek word for ‘sign’. It has been widely pressed into service in the modern European languages for coining new terms, including semaphore [19] (a borrowing from French, which etymologically means ‘signal-carrier’), semasiology [19] (a German coinage), and semiology [17]. The adjective derived from sēma was semantikós which reached English via French sémantique. It was fleetingly adopted in the mid-17th century as a word for ‘interpreting the ‘signs’ of weather’, but it did not come into its own as a linguistic term until the end of the 19th century.
=> semaphore, semiology

semantic (adj.)

1894, from French sémantique, applied by Michel Bréal (1883) to the psychology of language, from Greek semantikos "significant," from semainein "to show by sign, signify, point out, indicate by a sign," from sema "sign, mark, token; omen, portent; constellation; grave" (Doric sama), from PIE root *dheie- "to see, look" (cognates: Sanskrit dhyati "he meditates;" see zen).

1. He did not want to enter into a semantic debate.

他不想就语义进行争辩。

2. We shall often find correlation between grammatical and semantic categories.

我们往往会发现语法范畴和语义范畴之间的相互联系.

3. Other semantic entanglements might be mentioned.

还可以举出一些语义上的其他混乱现象.

4. There are two kinds of puns, phonetic pun and semantic pun.

双关语分为谐音双关和语义双关两类.

5. Finally, we illustrated the expression role of body attributive semantic research.

最后说明了体词性定语的表达作用.