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semasiology|ˌsiːmeɪsɪˈɒlədʒɪ|
[f. Gr. σηµασί-α signification, meaning + -logy.]
That branch of philology which deals with the meanings of words, sense-development, and the like.
[a1829C. K. Reisig Vorlesungen über Lateinische Sprachwissenschaft (1839) ii. 286 (heading) Semasiologie oder Bedeutungslehre.] 1847J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies (1857) 18 The development of intellectual and moral ideas from physical, constitutes an important part of semasiology, or that branch of grammar which treats of the development of the meanings of words. 1877R. Martineau tr. Goldziher's Mythol. Hebrews iii. 43 Some phenomena in the semasiology of Arabic words. 1884Athenæum 27 Sept. 395/1 Philology is now advancing towards a new branch having intimate relations with psychology, the so-called semasiology of Abel and others.
Hence semasioˈlogic a. rare = semasiological a.; semasioˈlogical a., belonging to semasiology; semasioˈlogically adv. Also semasiˈologist, one who studies semasiology.
1889F. Haverfield in Academy 7 Dec. 374/2 It is phonetically quite possible that..aestimo is connected with αισθάνοµαι, but semasiologically (as the phrase now is) it is improbable. 1890Athenæum 4 Oct. 450/1 Semasiological solecism. 1899Ibid. 5 Aug. 185/3 The semasiologist..has to trace the vicissitudes which the history of forms, words, and phrases presents with respect to signification. 1909L. Bloomfield in Mod. Philol. VII. 248 A number of examples are here given of secondary Germanic ablaut forms exhibiting a..feature of semasiologic differentiation. |