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Latin
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκῐσμός (Attĭkĭsmós)
Pronunciation
Noun
Atticismos m (genitive Atticismī); second declension
- (Late Latin, grammar) Atticism (employment of Attic expression, language, or style)
late AD 4th century,
Diomedes Grammaticus,
Artis Grammaticae libri III 440.16–23:
- Atthis, quae brevitati studet, admittit soloecismos, quos cum docti fecerint, non soloecismi sed schemata logu appellantur, ut est
n u d a g e n u
et
u r b e m q u a m s t a t u o v e s t r a e s t.
ibi enim nudum genu habens debuit dicere et urbs quam statuo vestra est. sed serviens schemati quod appellatur hellenismos tres partes orationis redegit in duas usus per Atticismon.- Attic, which favours concision, allows solecisms , when learned men have committed them, are called not solecisms but figures of speech, as for instance “nuda genu” and “urbem quam statuo vestra est” . For in those places [Virgil] ought to have said “nudum genu habens” and “urbs quam statuo vestra est”. But in service to the figure, that which is called Hellenism has reduced the three parts of speech to the two of usage on account of Atticism.
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
Descendants
Further reading
- attĭcismŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3.