different between thematic vs rhematic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (thematikós), from ???? (théma, “theme”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mæt?k/, /???mæt?k/

Adjective

thematic (comparative more thematic, superlative most thematic)

1. Relating to, or having a theme (“subject”) or a topic.

   He had a thematic collection of postage stamps with flags on them (where (UK) thematic collection = (US) topical collection)

2. (music) Relating to a melodic subject.
3. (linguistics) Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
4. (historical) Of or relating to a theme (“subdivision of the Byzantine empire”).

Translations

Noun

thematic (plural thematics)

1. A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection.

Anagrams

• mathetic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (rh?matikós, “verbal, pertaining to verbs”), from Ancient Greek ?????- (rh?mat-), ???? (rhêma, “verb (grammar), word”) + -???? (-ikós, “-ic; suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to, in the manner of’”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i??mat?k/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???mæt?k/, /?i-/, /-?mæ??k/
• Hyphenation: rhe?ma?tic

Noun

rhematic (countable and uncountable, plural rhematics)

1. (linguistics) The provision of new information regarding the current theme.
2. (chiefly linguistics, obsolete, rare) In the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834): the doctrine or study of arranging words into sentences clearly.

Adjective

rhematic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a rheme.
   1. (linguistics) Of a part of a sentence: providing new information regarding the current theme.
   2. (Peircean semiotics) Of or pertaining to a sumisign (a sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified interpretant, is represented as a character or mark).
2. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to word formation.
3. (obsolete, rare) In Coleridge's work: relating to the arrangement of words into sentences clearly.
4. (grammar, obsolete, rare) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb.

Synonyms

• (derived from a verb): verbal

Further reading

• Rheme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mechitar, athermic