different between synthetic vs polysynthetic
synthetic
English
Etymology
From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunthetikós).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?nth?t'?k, IPA(key): /s?n???t?k/
Adjective
synthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic)
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
- Artificial, not genuine.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
- (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
synthetic (plural synthetics)
- A synthetic compound.
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polysynthetic
English
Etymology
poly- +? synthetic
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?l?s?nth?t'?k, IPA(key): /?p?lis?n???t?k/
Adjective
polysynthetic (comparative more polysynthetic, superlative most polysynthetic)
- (grammar, of languages) Characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound.
- (mineralogy) Having layers of twin crystals
Related terms
- oligosynthetic
- polysynthesis
- polysynthesism
- synthetic
Translations
See also
- agglutinative
- analytic
- fusional
- incorporating
- inflected
- isolating
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- what is polysynthetic twinning
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- what is polysynthetic material
- examples of polysynthetic languages
- polysynthetic languages list
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