semiotic

• semeiotic, semeiotical, semiotical

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikós, “observant of signs”), ultimately derived from σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”). Compare semiotics.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛmiːˈɒtɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

semiotic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.
   • 2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media‎^[1]:

     Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.

   • 2025 August 20, Richard Garnett, “The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose””, in SCOTUSblog:

     Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.

2. (medicine, dated) symptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)

• “semiotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• comities

Borrowed from French sémiotique.

semiotic m or n (feminine singular semiotică, masculine plural semiotici, feminine and neuter plural semiotice)

1. semiotic