semantics (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[semantics 词源字典]
"science of meaning in language," 1893, from French sémantique (1883); see semantic (also see -ics). Replaced semasiology (1847), from German Semasiologie (1829), from Greek semasia "signification, meaning."[semantics etymology, semantics origin, 英语词源]