Etymology

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Today it means: Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression. Full definition →

Ancient Greek σημασία
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσημασία“the meaning of a word”
  2. English todaysemasiology

From Ancient Greek σημασία (sēmasía, “the meaning of a word”) + -ology.

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