Main Entry: se·mi·ot·ics

Pronunciation: \-ˈä-tiks\

Variant(s): or se·mi·ot·ic \-tik\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural semiotics

Etymology: Greek sēmeiōtikos observant of signs, from sēmeiousthai to interpret signs, from sēmeion sign, from sēma sign

Date: 1880

: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics

— semiotic adjective

— se·mi·o·ti·cian \-ə-ˈti-shən\ noun

— se·mi·ot·i·cist \-ˈä-tə-sist\ noun