phonetic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phonetic /fəˈnɛtɪk/
▶adjective Phonetics relating to speech sounds.
■ (of a system of writing) having a direct correspondence between symbols and sounds.
■ relating to phonetics.
– derivatives
phonetically adverb,
phoneticism noun,
phoneticist noun,
phoneticize (or phoneticise) verb.
phonetically adverb,
phoneticism noun,
phoneticist noun,
phoneticize (or phoneticise) verb.
– origin C19: from mod. L. phoneticus, from Gk phōnētikos, from phōnein ‘speak’.
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