1. Of or relating to phonetics. 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound: phonetic spelling.3. Of, relating to, or being features of pronunciation that are not phonemically distinctive in a language, as aspiration of consonants or vowel length in English.
ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin phnticus, representing speech sounds, from Greek phntikos, vocal, from phntos, to be spoken, from phnein, to produce a sound, from phn, sound, voice. See bh-2 in Appendix I.
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