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Italian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin acyrologiam.
Noun
acirologia f (plural acirologie)
- (grammar) acyrology
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin acyrologia, from Ancient Greek ἀκυρολογία (akurología). First attested in c. 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧ci‧ro‧lo‧gi‧a
Noun
acirologia f (plural acirologias)
- (rhetoric) acyrologia (improper use of a word)
References
- ^ José Pedro Machado (1995) “Acirologia”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 75