phonetic

What it means

1. not comparableRelating to the sounds of spoken language.
2. not comparablehuman sciencesRelating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
3. not comparableRelating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.

   All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.

In a sentence

All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
2. Proto-Hellenic*pʰōnā́
3. Ancient Greekφωνή (phōnḗ)
4. Ancient Greekφωνέω (phōnéō)
5. Ancient Greekφωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós)
6. Latinphōnēticus
7. Englishphonetic

Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.