linguistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   consisting of or related to language

   Linguistic behavior.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to the scientific study of language

   Linguistic theory.

3. 3
   adj

   Of or relating to language.

   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,.

4. 4
   adj

   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.

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

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